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Countdown to Semiquincentennial, June 11: An Iroquois Visit

by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 11, 2026 | Countdown to Semiquincentennial

As we saw, after two sessions in a committee of the whole, the Second Continental Congress came to a stalemate on the Lee resolution for independence. It would be tabled for three weeks, until July 1. But, as both Thomson’s journal entry and Jefferson’s notes agree,...

Countdown to Semiquincentennial, June 10: Words of Freedom

by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 10, 2026 | Countdown to Semiquincentennial

Delegates must have been primed to resume discussion of the proposed resolution for independence on Monday morning, although by this point the positions – but not the outcome — must have been well established and well known. I haven’t read through Letters of the...

Countdown to Semiquincentennial, June 9: Sunday Slowdown

by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 9, 2026 | Countdown to Semiquincentennial

My own focus on the Declaration of Independence has been almost exclusively textual and documentary. I’m humbled every time I return to the Revolutionary period by entire mountain ranges of scholarship and study I have not even imagined. One I have not well imagined...

Countdown to Semiquincentennial, June 8: Some Mystery

by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 8, 2026 | Countdown to Semiquincentennial

Charles Thomson, the secretary for the Second Continental Congress, might be described as a minimalist with the journals – as John Adams later complained. (But to be fair, Adams’s complaint came a quarter-century later, and in large part because he expected the...

Countdown to Semiquincentennial, June 7: Independence Introduced

by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 7, 2026 | Countdown to Semiquincentennial

On June 7, 1776, (a Friday), Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, on instructions from the Fifth Virginia Convention, formally proposed independence to the Second Continental Congress; John Adams seconded. Lee’s was the first formal independence proposal and can be...
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