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United StatesDeclaration of Independence

Check It Yourself

by Thomas Frank,

Personal and otherwise

by Harper’s Staff,

Where it was signed

by Harper’s Staff,

The Real Fourth of July

by Paul Leland Haworth,

The penalty of humor

by Brander Matthews,

How the Declaration was received in the Old Thirteen

by Charles D. (Charles Dunham) Deshler,

The dawning of independence

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson,

The Declaration of Independence in a new light

by William Leete Stone,

Signers of the Declaration of Independence (second paper)

by Benson John Lossing,

Signers of the Declaration of Independence (first paper)

by Benson John Lossing,

Editor’s drawer