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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Required Reading for the Fourth of July

The Declaration of Independence (transcript from the National Archives).
  • Audio: Read aloud on NPR's Morning Edition.
Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Speech (July 5, 1852).
  • Video: An excerpt performed by Phil Darius Wallace.
Posted by Rob Hardy at 11:07 AM
Labels: American history

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