3Qs: Celebrating America's independence

Wednesday marks the country’s annual cel­e­bra­tion of the adop­tion of the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence on July 4, 1776. But there are many inter­esting his­tor­ical facts that sur­round that date and how the Declaration’s impact changed over time, according to William Fowler, Northeastern’s Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of His­tory. Northeastern University news office asked Fowler to explore these fas­ci­nating tales and explain how the Dec­la­ra­tion inspired sim­ilar doc­u­ments in other countries.

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