Sumner as painted by Eastman Johnson
I included the most substantial blogs on America’s favorite holiday. The whole website is dedicated to the ongoing interpretation (including distortions) of the Declaration of Independence.
http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/
http://clarespark.com/2009/10/05/charles-sumner-moderate-conservative-on-lifelong-learning/ (Sumner argued that the Declaration of Independence had the force of law, hence must be seen as an anti-slavery document.)
http://clarespark.com/2011/04/03/progressives-the-luxury-debate-and-decadence/
http://clarespark.com/2012/01/28/popular-sovereignty-on-the-ropes/
http://clarespark.com/2011/10/04/coulters-demons-melville-john-adams-on-the-late-18th-c/
