The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Thomas Jefferson

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The Declaration of Independence -Suggestions for Further Reading

Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1992.

Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1979.

Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1979.

Smith, Page. Jefferson: A Revealing Biography. American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1976.

Wills, Gary. Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1978.

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