The Postal Service has released a video about its new Declaration of Independence stamp as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration.
The 3 1/2-minute video features archival footage and interviews with Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen, University of Chicago Professor Steven Pincus and Lucy Trout, secretary to the USPS Board of Governors, who spoke at the July 4 dedication ceremony.
“The declaration was a fearless call for freedom and self-determination that defined the ideals of the American Revolution and lit a spark that has inspired generations,” Trout says in the video. “From the fight to end slavery to the push for civil rights, Americans have looked to the Declaration to demand the nation live up to its founding promises.”
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