# News Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 48 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 48 results [### The Harvard Gazette: Reframing civics education ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/harvard-project-reframes-civics-education-via-statewide-pilot/) February 04, 2020 By: Jill Radsken, Harvard Staff Writer Vassal Lane Upper School eighth-grader Bodie Morein toggled his laptop mouse, marching Brianna Little, his video game heroine, to a fort in New York state during revolutionary times. A crowd formed, chanting: “If I... ![Kids playing Portrait of a Tyrant video game in class](/sites/g/files/omnuum10521/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/declaration/files/110819_civics_039.jpg?itok=KP-qw_qy) [### 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) [### 243rd Lantern Ceremony at Old North Church in Boston ](/news/243rd-lantern-ceremony-old-north-church-boston) April 15, 2018 Danielle Allen was the keynote speaker at the 243rd Lantern Ceremony at Old North Church, which commemorates the night that two lanterns were hung in the steeple to signal that the British regulars were moving "by sea." Click here for video of the full... description [### 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) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 4 ](?page=3 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")