{"id":12318,"date":"2026-07-14T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:02:30","slug":"everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-declaration-but-were-afraid-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-declaration-but-were-afraid-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Wanted to Know About the Declaration* *But Were Afraid to Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Watch a recording of Parkinson&#8217;s lecture on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/NYkMnMZ143c?si=GIjwCBfIaMG258ix\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know there were more than two dozen charges against King George listed in the Declaration? Want to know what those were all about? Who were the British <em>rogues<\/em> behind the charges? This talk is a deep dive into the forgotten body of the Declaration, the 27 grievances that were the Revolutionaries&#8217; dealbreakers in 1776.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Parkinson is professor of history at Binghamton University and the author of four books on Revolutionary America. His latest is <em>Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence<\/em> (W.W. Norton, 2026).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Parkinson<\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":12319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revolutions-past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12489,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}