{"id":37330,"date":"2025-08-18T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/?p=37330"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:26:17","slug":"250-years-of-our-declaration-of-independence-september-18-rhodes-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/250-years-of-our-declaration-of-independence-september-18-rhodes-college\/","title":{"rendered":"“250 Years of Our Declaration of Independence” (September 18, Rhodes College)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities<\/a>\u00a0at Rhodes College presents a free public lecture on Thursday, September 18 (6pm, McNeill Concert Hall) by\u00a0Dr. Danielle Allen<\/a>, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard and director of the\u00a0Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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This event is free and open to the public, but all attendees must pre-register using this link:<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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https:\/\/fs22.formsite.com\/webmanagerrhodesedu\/4i7kriyth1\/index<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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Combining a personal account of teaching the\u00a0Declaration of Independence<\/a>\u00a0with a vivid evocation of the colonial world, Allen\u2019s award-winning book\u00a0Our Declaration<\/i><\/a>\u00a0reveals our nation\u2019s founding text as not a catechism to be memorized but an animating force that can and did change the world. Challenging conventional wisdom, Allen boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout,\u00a0Our Declaration<\/i>\u00a0is\u00a0\u201ca tour de force of close textual analysis\u201d (Gordon S. Wood<\/a>).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I hope this event might be of interest to the staff and students of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.<\/div>\n
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Best,<\/div>\n
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Scott Newstok<\/div>\n
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Executive Director<\/div>\n
Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities<\/div>\n
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