Declaration of Independence – Joseph M. Adelman

My Fresh Take on the Declaration

4 Jul 20184 Jul 2018

Last year, the Declaration Resources Project at Harvard published a feature with twenty-four historians re-reading the Dunlap broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence and then offering brief remarks in…

A Contrarian Take on the Mystery of the Missing Period

3 Jul 20143 Jul 2014

Last night the New York Times ran a piece on a mystery of punctuation in the Declaration of Independence (in classic NYT style, the headline reads "A Period is Questioned" ... cute). According…