# “Making the Declaration” Webinar

This webinar will explore the intellectual sources and material processes that allowed the Declaration of Independence to be made over the course of twenty-three days in the summer of 1776. The audience will learn about the texts and traditions that Thomas Jefferson drew upon while writing the first draft, the revision process within the Continental Congress that led to the final version of the Declaration, the process by which it was printed in Philadelphia by John Dunlap, and the method of distributing the broadsides to each of the new United States and across the Atlantic.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2026
- Runtime: 1 h
- By: Hastings, Patrick
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-12131/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-12131?play=1)