Eric Slauter on the Declaration of Independence: How people thought about it in 1776

1,951 views · Published 11 January 2013 · 1:09:32 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: The University of Chicago · 2013 · Education

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With the help of newly digitized 18th-century American newspapers and other publications, Eric Slauter traces how people wrote about the Declaration in its own time, and examines the more nuanced story about how—and who—gave us the Declaration Americans now celebrate and looks to answer the question of what the Declaration of Independence actually declares.

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