Composing America

I found this reading to be interesting and easy to read. All throughout school I have always been big on learning about history. I think that history is very interesting because you can always learn something new no matter what you are learning about. While reading I found a lot of things that really stuck out to me. One thing that did was how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. The way he wrote was different than how most people would. He would barely use capital letters and mainly used then for an emphasis. I don't think that Jefferson's writing should have been corrected by Dunlap, and that it should have been published the way it was. Jefferson was the one that wrote it so it should of stayed the way he wrote it because that would make it the true document. I also found it interesting how Lincoln used drafts while he was writing the Gettysburg Address. I never would have thought that back in the days people would use them. Lincoln had a few drafts and as talked about they were different every time he wrote a new one. Since it is one of the most important speeches, I think it was important to write drafts to make it perfect.