Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between…