A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry: With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States, and Other Documents
1839
A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry: With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States, and Other Documents
1839
Published in 1839, this volume captures American patriotism at its most earnest and immediate. Written just decades after the Revolutionary War still echoed in living memory, L. Carroll Judson assembled biographical sketches of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration, alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, as a deliberate act of preservation. The author wrote for young Americans specifically, aiming to instill civic virtue through example. These are not the critical, nuanced portraits of modern historiography but heartfelt tributes to men the author considered national saints. The book also serves as a capsule of early American thought: an appendix includes the Constitution and founding documents, framing them as sacred texts. For modern readers, the value lies partly in what it reveals about 19th-century American self-understanding and partly in its archival preservation of details about men whose signatures changed the world. This is history as hagiography, and that is precisely what makes it fascinating.
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