Nearly 250 years after printers rushed the Declaration of Independence into existence, BYU adjunct design professor Robert Buchert is retracing history one letter, one sheet, and one impression at a time. As America celebrates its semiquincentennial, Buchert’s recreation offers a reminder that the nation’s founding document is more than words on a page—it is a physical record of a pivotal night in history and of the people who worked to officially declare a new nation. Read the story and see the printmaking in action.
