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from the article "A "Remarkable Meteor" Dims" in the Autumn 2011 journal.
from the article "Staying Connected before the Age of the Silicon Chip" in the Autumn 2011 journal.
from the article "The War" in the Summer 2011 journal.
from the article "James Fort, Lost and Found" in the Summer 2011 journal.
from the article "What's Wrong With This Picture?" in the Winter 2011 journal.
from the article "Dear Eighteenth Century" in the Winter 2011 journal.
from the article "Every Man Able to Read" in the Winter 2011 journal.
from the article "A Few of the Oldest Photos of Williamsburg" in the Winter 2011 journal.
from the article "How the Founders Sowed the Seeds of Civil War" in the Winter 2011 journal.
from the article "His Integrity Inflexible, and His Justice Exact" in the Spring 10 journal.
Zoom in on the signatures on the bottom of the Declaration of Independence
In the late afternoon of July 4, 1776, a copy of the Declaration was taken to the nearby print shop of John Dunlap, the official printer for Congress. The copies he printed are now called Dunlap Broadsides.
Zoom in on the United States Constitution
Patrick Henry, at a meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses, proposed seven resolutions against the Stamp Act.
from the Winter 09 Journal
from the Spring 08 Journal
from the Autumn 08 Journal
from the Autumn 07 Journal article "In Search of the Frenchman's Map"
from the article "Wills Simple and Elaborate" in the Summer 07 Journal
from the article "One of the most intriguing might-have-beens in American History" in the Spring 07 Journal
