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Fires, wars and bureaucracy: The tumultuous journey to establish the US National Archives

  • Written by Elizabeth Call, University Archivist, RIT Libraries and Archives, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageThe 1952 procession to deliver the Declaration of Independence and Constitution from the Library of Congress to the National Archives included military guards and a tank.National Archives

Some of the United States’ most important historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the...

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