Independence Day: A Bibliography Compiled by Summer Intern Erin Weinman
Erin Weinman of Somerville, NJ is a senior history major at Rutgers University. She is interning at the David Library this summer.
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner, and the nation is preparing once again to celebrate our founding
history. The David Library is home to an extensive collection on the
Declaration of Independence, some of the signers and the events that surrounded America's declaration of independence from England. Why not pick up a little summer reading to get you in the spirit (of '76)? The following books are available at the David Library (call numbers are the David Library's), but you are likely to find some of these at your local public library or bookseller as well.
Allen, Danielle. Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2014. Call number 7510.
Casey,
Robert E. The Declaration of
Independence: Illustrated Story of its Adoption. New York: Illustrated Publishers, 1914. Call number 1481.
Ellis,
Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character
of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred K.
Knopf, 1997. Call number 4494.
Fowler,
William M. The Baron of Beacon Hill: A
Biography of John Hancock. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1979. Call number 569.
Franklin,
Benjamin. Autobiography; Poor Richard; Letters.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899.
Call number 7048.
Hawken,
Henry A. Trumpets of Glory: Fourth of
July Orations 1786-1861. Granby, CT.: Salmon
Brook Historical Society, 1976. Call number 1388.
Hogeland,
William. Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous
Weeks When America Became Independent.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Call number 7198.
Maier,
Pauline. American Scripture: Making the
Declaration of Independence. New York:
Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1997. Call number 4477.
McCullough,
David. John Adams. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 2001. Call number 5808.
Miller,
Marla R. Betsy Ross and the Making of
America. New York: Henry Holt, 2010. Call
number 7177.
Rakove,
Jack N. The Annotated U.S. Constitution
and Declaration of Independence. Cambridge,
Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Call number 7184.
Travers,
Len. Celebrating the Fourth: Independence
Day and the Rites of Nationalism in
the Early Republic. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press,
1997. Call number 4539.
