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We hold these truths … Declaration of Independence, Life of William Grimes, Declaration of Sentiments, Frederick Douglass’s Oration

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The Beinecke Library marks the 247th anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of vital documents of United States history from Yale Library special collections.

Windham-Campbell Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Natasha Trethewey

Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2022 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Trethewey will be introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel

Readings of the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Oration

To mark Independence Day 2023, the Beinecke Library continues its tradition of public readings on July 5 at 4pm on the library mezzanine of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, and of the oration by Frederick Douglass given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, in which he asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”

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