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Independence Day

Tuesday July 4, 2023, marks 247 years of an independent United States of America. Although Lehman Library will be closed to honor the holiday, you can still check out digital books!  Here are just some of the full text e-books exploring American independence that you can access with your Shippensburg ID.

Revolution Against Empire : Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence/ Justine Du Rivage

The miracle of American independence : twenty ways things could have turned out differently / Jonathan R. Dull.

Resisting Independence : Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic/ Brad A. Jones

Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence. : The Declaration Historically Considered, and a Sketch of the Leading Events Connected with the Adoption of the Articles of Confederation and of the Federal Constitution/ Benson John Lossing

You can learn more about John Trumbull’s famous painting Declaration of Independence depicted above, and other artworks in the capitol campus, by visiting the website of the Architect of the Capitol.  You can also explore primary source documents related to American independence courtesy of the National Archives.

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