The Gilder Lehrman Institute recommends the books listed here, which represent the very best in recent scholarship on the origins, impact, and legacy of the Declaration of Independence. Visit the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750–1800. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Maier, Pauline. American…

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“The Declaration at 250” is a multi-year project. These pages will be updated with new resources periodically. Check back here to find out what the Gilder Lehman Insitute of American History has planned. Coming Soon April 2022: A new publication, Black Historians on the Record, with essays related to democracy and liberty across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Highlights include “Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals” by James Oliver Horton “African Americans and the Making of Liberia” by Claude A. Clegg “Avoiding the Trap of Whitewashing…