TEDEd: What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence.

Posted By Les Conklin on Jul 7, 2016

TEDEd helps educators create courseware. Fortunately, viewers of this TEDEd video don’t have to create a lesson to learn some of the lesser known facts about the writing of the Declaration of Independence, including one very controversial topic that was omitted from the final draft.

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