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On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and independent states.” This Declaration of Independence, read to crowds ...
A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...
July 3 (UPI) --A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence printed in 1776 has been found in London, making it the only known example of the so-called Exeter printing to exist outside the United ...