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.
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/
https://clarespark.com/2009/09/06/the-hebraic-american-landscape-sublime-or-despotic/
https://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.)
https://clarespark.com/2011/04/03/progressives-the-luxury-debate-and-decadence/
https://clarespark.com/2012/01/28/popular-sovereignty-on-the-ropes/
https://clarespark.com/2011/10/04/coulters-demons-melville-john-adams-on-the-late-18th-c/
https://clarespark.com/2012/01/03/the-race-card/
https://clarespark.com/2012/06/29/the-neutered-state/
https://clarespark.com/2012/09/21/milton-mason-melville-on-free-speech/
https://clarespark.com/2015/07/03/lets-pretend/
https://clarespark.com/2015/07/04/patriotism-perfectionism-excessive-parental-expectations-and-ocd/
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