E4198 - Vincit: July 5, 1776 — The Morning the Hard Work Began │ BardsFM

Episode 4171 │ July 5, 2026

July 4 lit the flame. July 5 is where the endurance begins. The Declaration was adopted. Congress met in regular session and got back to work.

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS 

Scott Kesterson opens on the morning after the 250th with the detail history almost never tells: the beautifully engrossed parchment in the National Archives was not produced until August 2 — what circulated on July 5, 1776 was John Dunlop's broadside, printed through the night, 200 working government documents dispatched to colonial assemblies and General Washington, who received his copy on July 9, immediately ordered it read to every briga...