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Precusor to the Declaration: the English Declaration of Right, 1689
Intercolonial Cooperation: The First Continental Congress Petitions the King
A document in process: the earliest surviving draft of Jefferson's Declaration
Other Authors: The Second Continental Congress
A founding document: the Declaration of Independence
Craftsmen as Patriots: Voices for the Revolution
How was the nation thinking about the Revolution and independence in the 1820s?
Gift to a Grandson-in-Law: Jefferson's letter to Eleanor Wayles Randolph Coolidge
Affidavit of Authenticity: the note Jefferson attached to the writing box
Evolution of the Declaration: Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
Evolution of the Declaration: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" (1852)
Evolution of the Declaration: Lincoln speaks to immigrants (1858)
How was the nation thinking about the Revolution and independence in the 1820s?
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Interview with Larry Bird, National Museum of American History, May 31, 2006.
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