We’ve explored the Declaration, read the CT Courant, plumbed the depths of American animosity towards Britain, but what does it all mean at this moment in time? How has the nation commemorated the Declaration in the past and what is happening in the country now? How should we feel about “celebrating” or “commemorating” America?
Dr. Matthew Warshauer is a professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and served for six years at the co-chair of the Connecticut Civil War Commemoration Commission, which was responsible for the state’s many activities remembering the nation’s greatest trial. Warshauer is a widely recognized and sought after lecturer in the field of American political and constitutional history and is the author of four books. Two on Andrew Jackson and two on Connecticut and the Civil War.