How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lofty ideals into practice? A conversation with Richard D. Brown, author of Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War. We talk about religious liberty, Ephraim Wheeler, the rights (or lack of rights) of women, and also about Richard Brown's first book Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Committees of Correspondence and the Towns 1772-1774, and about the September issue of the New England Quarterly,
which will focus on the influence of Bernard Bailyn.