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Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
This was the sixth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and it’s been quite a week.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
After a lovely day with family and friends, I’m turning it over to Buddy tonight.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Today President Donald J.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
