 Now, if you're staying in town for the 4th, WTOP's Mike Murillo says you can celebrate by the steps of the National Archives. At the home of the important document. We have an actual reading of the Declaration of Independence. Colleen Shogan, the archivist of the United States, says that will happen at 10 a.m. It's a chance for the whole family to hear the words on the document adopted on July 4th, 1776 that declared our independence from Great Britain.