On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.

Part of a series of occasional features marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It has been almost 250 years since John Dunlap’s Philadelphia print shop pulled an all-nighter ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain. Approximately 20 percent of the members of Congress were opposed to separation, but some ...