LEPORE: Douglass comes to realize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, you know, we're not going to win this battle by denouncing them. ... GORDON-REED: It's like a great poem.

As the USA looks forward to celebrating the Fourth of July, recalling the Declaration of Independence of 1776, here is New Englander Robert Frost’s salute to the occasion. He perceives, with a ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, ... The poem with music by Samuel A. Ward was published as a song in 1910. In 1910, ...

The Declaration of Independence used to be read aloud at public gatherings every Fourth of July. Today, while all Americans have heard of it, all too few have read more than its second sentence.

LEPORE: Douglass comes to realize the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, you know, we're not going to win this battle by denouncing them. ... GORDON-REED: It's like a great poem.