{"id":1745,"date":"2015-08-21T15:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecafeprojects.com\/declarationproject\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T15:57:58","slug":"three-books-on-the-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"Three Books on the Declaration: Chris’s recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was heartening to receive today a supportive email from David Armitage<\/a>, chair of Harvard’s vaunted history department, and author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global Perspective<\/a>. Dr. Armitage called our Declaration Project<\/a> as “an important enterprise.” Such an endorsement from one of the most respected scholars on our Declaration of Independence means a great deal to me. I’m sometimes asked which books on the Declaration I’d recommend, and here’s the three I’d recommend above all others: \u00a0Armitage’s book, the late Pauline Maier<\/a>‘s beautiful American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence<\/a>, and Danielle Allen<\/a>‘s stirring Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality<\/a>\u00a0(I had the privilege of moderating a thoughtful exchange <\/a>with Dr. Allen at the National Constitution Center). All are exceptional scholars whose eloquent writing is\u00a0also geared towards a lay audience. \u00a0Each book presents singular insights on the Declaration, approaching it from quite different vantage points. \u00a0I hope you’ll immerse yourself, as I have done on numerous occasions, each time gaining new illuminations, in these vital works. I can’t sing their praises enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was heartening to receive today a supportive email from David Armitage, chair of Harvard’s vaunted history department, and author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global Perspective. Dr. Armitage called our Declaration Project as “an important enterprise.” Such an endorsement from one of the most respected scholars on our Declaration of Independence means a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}