# Course of Human Events [### Delegate Discussions: The Lee Resolution(s) ](/blog/dd-lee-resolution) June 07, 2018 Independence, confederation, and foreign alliances. For months, these three elements were the talk of the Continental Congress. When Richard Henry Lee’s resolution was presented on June 7, 1776, it called for these three things, in this order: That these... ![Delegate Discussions Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/delegate_discussions_logo.jpg?itok=PxtH13QC) [### Research Highlight: The Green Broadside ](/blog/green-broadside) January 22, 2018 In 1949, Michael Walsh published a census of “Contemporary Broadside Editions of the Declaration of Independence” in the Harvard Library Bulletin. The Boston Public Library holds the only known copy of a broadside described by Walsh as follows :... ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg?itok=sQsowG-K) [### December Highlight: Dunlap ](/blog/december-dunlap) December 04, 2017 For this month's Research Highlight, we're going back to the basics: the who, what, where, when, and why of the very first printing of the Declaration of Independence, the Dunlap broadside! WHO John Dunlap was born in 1746 or 1747 in Strabane, County... ![Research Highlights](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights-01.jpg?itok=khhZJRKO) [### November Highlight: Charles Thomson ](/blog/november-thomson) November 04, 2017 Charles Thomson. He was the first and only Secretary of the Continental Congress. His name is on the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. The manuscript Journals of the Continental Congress are in his hand. He created the final, approved... ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg?itok=sQsowG-K) [### October Highlight: Abigail and John ](/blog/october-abigail-john) October 04, 2017 In First Family: Abigail and John Adams, Joseph Ellis claims, “there were other prominent couples in the revolutionary era... But no other couple left a documentary record of their mutual thoughts and feelings even remotely comparable to Abigail and John... ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg?itok=sQsowG-K) [### A Conversation with Joseph M. Adelman ](/blog/adelman) September 20, 2017 Joseph M. Adelman is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts. He is currently at work on two book projects; the first focuses on the business of printing and circulation of political... ![Joseph Adelman](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/joe-headshot-cropped.jpg?itok=-LEuP3qm) [### September Highlight: The Declaration and the Constitution ](/blog/september-constitution) September 04, 2017 When the engrossed parchment copies of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were installed at the National Archives on December 15, 1952, President Harry S. Truman connected the two documents as follows: “Everyone who holds... ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg?itok=sQsowG-K) [### Unsullied by Falsehood: The Present ---- of G---- B------ ](/blog/british-newspapers) August 16, 2017 The news and text of the Declaration of Independence reached England by mid-August 1776. In the newly United States, the text had been printed in over 30 newspapers in the span of a month. In Great Britain and Ireland, the Declaration was printed in still... ![Unsullied by Falsehood Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/unsullied_by_falsehood_logo.jpg?itok=sCkdhh-H) [### August Highlight: Son of a Signer ](/blog/august-jqa) August 04, 2017 On July 11th, 1776, John Quincy Adams turned 9 years old. On July 12th, he was inoculated for smallpox along with his mother Abigail and his siblings. And on July 13th, Abigail received her husband John’s letters with news of the Declaration of... ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg?itok=sQsowG-K) [### July Highlight: The First Anniversary ](/blog/july-1777) July 04, 2017 Holidays and anniversaries can often sneak up on people. That seems to be the case in Philadelphia on the first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1777. In the defense of the Continental Congress, they were a bit busy. In that first... ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg?itok=sQsowG-K) [### June Highlight: The Adams Family ](/blog/june-family) June 04, 2017 A few of John Adams' cousins are well-known; his first cousin Samuel, for example, or his wife Abigail (a third cousin). But did you know Adams discovered another cousin through a copy of the Declaration of Independence? On May 16, 1818, Benjamin Owen... ![Research Highlights](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/research_highlights-01.jpg?itok=khhZJRKO) [### A Conversation with Authors Barbara Kerley, Steve Sheinkin, and Gretchen Woelfle ](/blog/childrens-books) May 30, 2017 Do you remember how you first learned about the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence? Perhaps in the classroom, or on a visit to a historic site. Or, perhaps, through a book. Jean Fritz, who recently passed away, authored Will You Sign... ![Conversations](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/conversations-01.jpg?itok=IdSp9usJ) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/news) ## More in the Course of Human Events Open all sections Close all sections ### Research Highlights expand\_more ![Research Highlights Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/research_highlights_logo.jpg) **2018** [The Green Broadside](/blog/green-broadside "Research Highlight: The Green Broadside") **2017** [December Highlight: Dunlap](/blog/december-dunlap "December Highlight: Dunlap") [November Highlight: Charles Thomson](/blog/november-thomson "November Highlight: Charles Thomson") [October Highilght: Abigail and John](/blog/october-abigail-john "October Highlight: Abigail and John") [September Highlight: The Declaration and the Constitution](/blog/september-constitution "September Highlight: The Declaration and the Constitution") [August Highlight: Son of a Signer](/blog/august-jqa "August Highlight: Son of a Signer") [July Highlight: The First Anniversary](/blog/july-1777 "July Highlight: The First Anniversary") [June Highlight: The Adams Family](/blog/june-adams "June Highlight: Atlas of Independence") [May Highlight: In the Printing Office](/blog/may-gill "May Highlight: In the Printing Office") [April Highlight: The Massachusetts Spy as a Case Study](/blog/april-spy "April Highlight: The Massachusetts Spy as a Case Study") [March Highlight: Remembering the Ladies](/blog/march-ladies "March Highlight: Remembering the Ladies") [February Highlight: Superintending Independence, Part 2](/blog/february-superintending-2 "February Highlight: Superintending Independence, Part 2") [January Highlight: Superintending Independence, Part 1](/blog/january-superintending-1 "January Highlight: Superintending Independence, Part 1") **2016** [December Highlight: Founding Fathers?](/blog/december-founders "December Highlight: Founding Fathers?") [November Highlight: Election Connections](/blog/november-election "November Highlight: Election Connections") [October Highlight: "With the Declaration of Independence"](/blog/october-context "October Highlight: "With the Declaration of Independence"") [September Highlight: Extravagant and Inadmissible Claim of Independency](/blog/september-kings-speech "September Highlight: Extravagant and Inadmissible Claim of Independency") [August Highlight: A Tale of Two Declarations](/blog/august-howe "August Highlight: A Tale of Two Declarations") [July Highlight: George Rejected and Liberty Protected](/blog/july-proclamations "July Highlight: George Rejected and Liberty Protected") [June Highlight: Atlas of Independence](/blog/june-adams "June Highlight: Atlas of Independence") [May Highlight: An Instrument which will Perpetuate the Fame of its Author](/blog/may-propaganda "May Highlight: An Instrument which will Perpetuate the Fame of its Author") [April Highlight: Missing McKean](/blog/april-mckean "April Highlight: Missing McKean") [March Highlight: Mary Katherine Goddard](/blog/march-goddard "March Highlight: Mary Katherine Goddard") ### Unsullied by Falsehood expand\_more ![Unsullied by Falsehood Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/unsullied_by_falsehood_logo.jpg) [The Present — of G— B——](/blog/british-newspapers "Unsullied by Falsehood: The Present ---- of G---- B------") [Ben Franklin and the Turkey](/blog/turkey "Unsullied by Falsehood: Ben Franklin and the Turkey") [The Signing](/blog/signing "Unsullied by Falsehood: The Signing") [No John Trumbull](/blog/trumbull "Unsullied by Falsehood: No John Trumbull ") [Exact Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence](/blog/exact-facsimiles "Unsullied by Falsehood: Exact Facsimiles of the Declaration of Independence") ### Delegate Discussions expand\_more ![Delegate Discussions Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/delegate_discussions_logo.jpg) [The Lee Resolution(s)](/blog/dd-lee-resolution "Delegate Discussions: The Lee Resolution(s)") [Common Sense](/blog/dd-common-sense "Delegate Discussions: Common Sense") [Bill of Rights](/blog/dd-rights "Delegate Discussions: Bill of Rights") [Benjamin Rush's Characters](/blog/dd-rush "Delegate Discussions: Benjamin Rush's Characters") [Answering the Great Question](/blog/dd-great-question "Delegate Discussions: Answering the Great Question") [The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence](/blog/dd-meckdec "Delegate Discussions: The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence") ### Conversations expand\_more ![Conversations Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/conversations_logo.jpg) [A Conversation with Joseph M. Adelman](/blog/adelman "A Conversation with Joseph M. Adelman") [A Conversation with Authors Barbara Kerley, Steve Sheinkin, and Gretchen Woelfle](/blog/childrens-books "A Conversation with Authors Barbara Kerley, Steve Sheinkin, and Gretchen Woelfle") [A Conversation with Luke Mayville](/blog/mayville "A Conversation with Luke Mayville") [A Conversation with Steven Pincus](/blog/pincus "A Conversation with Steven Pincus") ### Presenting the Facts expand\_more ![Presenting the Facts Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/declaration/files/presenting_the_facts_logo.jpg) [1776](/blog/facts-1776 "Presenting the Facts: 1776") [National Treasure](/blog/facts-nationaltreasure "Presenting the Facts: National Treasure") [John Adams Miniseries](/blog/facts-johnadams "Presenting the Facts: John Adams Miniseries")