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October 18, 2009

The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation

Early this year, I read Pauline Maier’s document history of the Declaration of Independence. It looked at the Declaration as the end point of a process and made some fascinating comparisons to other document sources, the conventions of the day, … Continue reading →

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February 17, 2009

American Scripture: The Making of the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier (2/2009)

On my return trip from Washington DC in early February, I finished reading Pauline Maier’s historiography “American Scripture: The Making of the Declaration of Independence“. In a political year that has validated the notion that words do have weight and … Continue reading →

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