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The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Modern Self-Determination

David Armitage

Government and Civics, World History

Ask any American what the opening lines of the US Declaration of Independence of 1776 are and chances are they might reply, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” and then go on to recite its inspiring statements on human equality...
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The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Self-Determination in the Modern World

#61 Fall 2021

History Now Essay

Venezuela’s First Declaration of Independence and US Republicanism: Convergences and Divergences

Vitor Izecksohn

Government and Civics, World History

On the eve of the nineteenth century, Venezuela was a rich dominion of the Spanish Empire in South America. Coffee, indigo, and cacao, grown on large plantations and sold to European merchants, connected the rural region to the...
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History Now Essay

From Colony to Nation: Liberian Independence and Black Self-Government in the Atlantic World

Claude A. Clegg III

Government and Civics, World History

The emergence of the independent republic of Liberia on the coast of West Africa in the mid-nineteenth century was a historically significant turn of events in several ways. Led by a Black American settler class that sought to rule...
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History Now Essay

The Will to Be Free: On the Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Thuy Vo Dang

Government and Civics, World History

In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote that “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” [1] His letter addressed his fellow clergymen amidst the...
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61 | The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Self-Determination in the Modern World Fall 2021
History Now Essay

The Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Southern Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe)

Eliakim Sibanda

Government and Civics, World History

The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was the most polarizing event in the colonial history of Zimbabwe. Locally, regionally, and internationally, it sharpened differences of opinion with respect to independence, especially...
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