July 4th Celebration
#ArchivesJuly4—Celebrate With Us
People all over the country share the celebration on social media using the hashtag #ArchivesJuly4.
If you can't come in person to Washington, DC, join our celebration through 
and on the US National Archives Facebook page. Or celebrate at one of our Presidential libraries around the nation.
Prologue Articles
"Travels of the Charters of Freedom"
The Declaration of Independence and the Hand of Time
Finding the Stones: National Archives Discovers Several Engravings of the Declaration
The Stone Engraving: Icon of the Declaration
A New Era Begins for the Charters of Freedom
The Faulkner Murals: Depicting the Creation of a Nation
Pieces of History Blogs
Pieces of History: New Online Exhibit: “Carting the Charters”
Pieces of History: Making it Official: The Day the Declaration of Independence Was Signed
Google Cultural Institute
"Carting the Charters": Fnd out how the Charters of Freedom—The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—came to rest in the National Archives.
Founders Online
Founders Online lets you to read and search through thousands of documents written by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
July 4th at the National Archives is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation with the generous support of John Hancock, Dykema, and Boies Schiller Flexner.