Americans learn about the document in school, but there are some lesser-known facts about the Declaration of Independence ...

Petri is the author of "A.P.'s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)" and the essay collections "Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why" and "A Field Guide to Awkward Silences." ...

how important it is. We sent photographs of it to our historian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who specializes in American historical documents. He's done this his entire life, and he immediately ...