If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. With the help of newly digitized 18th-century American newspapers and other publications, Eric Slauter traces how people wrote about the Declaration in its own time, and examines the more nuanced story about how—and who—gave us the Declaration Americans now celebrate and looks to answer the question of what the Declaration of Independence actually declares.