At 250, the Declaration of Independence Still Sparks Hard Questions in Class

This article first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education, which co-published the article with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy and power. Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very different meanings. One comes from Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution, celebrating our Founding Fathers’ signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and thei...