The Declaration of Independence

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress approved the final text of the Declaration of Independence. But the vote for independence had already happened two days earlier, and the famous signing was still weeks away. This episode follows the delegates who gambled their lives on treason, the ailing Delaware rider who crossed eighty miles through a storm to break a deadlock, and a single sentence about equality that would outlast the war itself. Learn why a document adopted 250 years ago still reads less like a relic than a demand.Send me a text!Support the show