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Summary Of The Declaration Of Independence By Bernard Bailyn

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The Declaration of Independence is inarguably a document that changed the world, it is no wonder why so many historians and students study it to this day. However, it is a wonder how nearly everybody who reads the document interprets its purpose differently and yet the vast majority of them are correct nonetheless. This is especially clear in comparing excerpts from The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution written by Bernard Bailyn and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Bernard Bailyn is an award-winning American historian who teaches at Harvard University, in his book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution he claims that the Declaration is a document full of the colonists´ sentiments. Bailyn states

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