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TITLE: Publishing the Declaration of Independence

SPEAKER: Robin Shields
EVENT DATE: 06/24/2005
RUNNING TIME: 22 minutes
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Robin Shields discusses the American Declaration of Independence, focusing on its distribution through early American newspapers. Fifteen newspapers containing the Declaration from the Library of Congress' Serial and Government Publication Division's American newspaper collection are profiled. Shields highlights the importance of newspapers for the success of the American Revolution and the influence newspaper printers had on the independence movement.

Speaker Biography: Robin Shields (retired) was a reference librarian in the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress.

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