When the Declaration of Independence was News

My book manuscript traces the journey of the Declaration of Independence through the United States and around the Atlantic in the summer and fall of 1776.

Proclaiming independence to the world was messy, politically and materially.

The Continental Congress declared independence, but the work of spreading that news involved printers, post riders, ship captains, civic leaders, soldiers, clerks, orators, preachers, diplomats, and translators.