Which newspaper first published the Declaration of Independence, two days after its adoption celebrated by America250?

The Pennsylvania Evening Post first published the Declaration of Independence, two days after its adoption celebrated by America250.

The newspaper printed the document on July 6, 1776, after the Second Continental Congress approved the wording on July 4. Publication allowed the declaration to circulate beyond the delegates who had debated it in Philadelphia.

The first printed version is known as the Dunlap broadside because printer John Dunlap produced it for Congress. The broadside carried the names of John Hancock and Charles Thomson in print, rather than reproducing the signatures on the later engrossed parchment copy.

The public did not initially receive a printed list of all the signers. Congress later ordered authenticated copies sent to the states, and the Goddard broadside became the first widely distributed version to list the names of the signers. These printing stages are why adoption, publication, public reading, and signing should not be treated as one event.