“OUR NEW CHARACTER” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com, ©2016 (Sep. 1, 2016) — During the night of July 4, 1776, John Dunlap, the official printer to the Continental Congress, printed approximately 200 single-sided copies, called broadsides, of the Declaration of Independence. Congress had ordered, “… copies of the declaration [of Independence] be sent to the several […]
