Civic Thought & Leadership Initiative

Creating, Sharing, and Celebrating the Declaration

Primary-source (original) materials can help us learn about the past as we explore important documents and the world that shaped their creation.

For the Declaration of Independence, its ideas crystalized a revolution then and has shaped the evolution over time of how we see and govern ourselves in the United States and around the world.

The following resources help families and teachers to study and understand how the Declaration of Independence was created, shared, and celebrated in 1776 and today:

Creating

Explore original documents and digital models connected to the creation of the Declaration of Independence.
Find resources here.

Sharing

How did people in the Colonies, Great Britain, and around the world learn about the signing of the Declaration?
See how the Declaration was shared.