Which newspaper first published the United States Declaration of Independence, a document celebrated by America250?

The Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to publish the United States Declaration of Independence, a document celebrated by America250.

The Philadelphia newspaper published the Declaration on July 6, 1776, two days after the Second Continental Congress adopted it. Benjamin Towne published the paper, which had begun appearing in 1775 and became the first daily newspaper in the United States.

The newspaper’s publication helped spread the declaration beyond the congressional meeting room. Separately, printer John Dunlap produced broadside copies that were distributed to officials, military leaders, and communities. Public readings began on July 8 in Philadelphia, Trenton, and Easton.

The Pennsylvania Evening Post is sometimes confused with the Pennsylvania Gazette, another influential Philadelphia newspaper associated with Benjamin Franklin. The Gazette was important in colonial America, but the Evening Post is the publication identified with the first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence.