Calvin Coolidge, Address on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)

A president in 1926 stands in Independence Hall and argues something that still feels like a dare: you can modernize policies, but you can’t “upgrade” the Declaration’s core truths. With Dr. Beienberg, we walk through Calvin Coolidge’s 150th anniversary address on the Declaration of Independence and why it deserves to be read as a serious meditation on American political philosophy, not just a patriotic ceremony. We unpack Coolidge’s surprising framing of the American Revolution as con...