The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas

Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian. He was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History in the Department of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1923. He was best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University, and this work, The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas was first published in 1922.