When the Declaration of Independence was News
My book manuscript traces the journey of the Declaration of Independence through the United States and around the Atlantic in the summer and fall of 1776.
Proclaiming independence to the world was messy, politically and materially.
The Continental Congress declared independence, but the work of spreading that news involved printers, post riders, ship captains, civic leaders, soldiers, clerks, orators, preachers, diplomats, and translators.
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The Sussex Declaration
In 2015, Danielle Allen and I uncovered the second known contemporary manuscript parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence, located in the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester, England.
Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence
In 2017, as Research Manager of the Declaration Resources Project, I reached out to scholars from across the country and asked them to read the Declaration of Independence and briefly respond.
Contributors included: Robert Allison, Zara Anishanslin, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Kathleen DuVal, Nicole Eustace, Caitlin Fitz, Sara Georgini, Annette Gordon-Reed, Maya Jasanoff, Tiya Miles, Johann Neem, Peter Onuf, Robert Parkinson, Carla Gardina Pestana, Steven Pincus, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, Claudio Saunt, Andrew Schocket, Alexander Tsesis, and Karin Wulf.