Why read When the Declaration of Independence Was News?

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Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking book follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen United States and the Atlantic world.

In 1776 people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read it in the pages of…

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Robert G. Parkinson

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So what happened to the Declaration after July 4, 1776? Sneff’s new book is a lively exploration of the six months after July, as the Declaration made its way to New York, Boston, the American backcountry, London, and e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y to Paris.

Sneff shows us how people changed the text and engaged with the decision this news forced upon them. We often forget how the Declaration was a war document, but what I found fascinating in this book – which I inhaled in a few hours – was how the war matters a great deal in shaping how people received the…

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