Articles

Boston's Freedom Trail (July/August 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 4)
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Old Glory's Odyssey (February/March 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 1)
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Seeking a Real Tax Revolt (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
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Who Was Washington? (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 1)
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Jefferson’s Paris (April 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 2)
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“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2017 | Volume: 62, Issue: 4)
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Freedom of Religion: America’s Greatest Invention (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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Introducing George Washington on TV (June/July 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 3)
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The Young George Washington (Fall 2019 - George Washington Prize Books | Volume: 64, Issue: 5)
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James Monroe’s “Furniture Fund” (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty (Special Issue - George Washington Prize 2018 | Volume: 63, Issue: 2)
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Friends at Twilight (May/June 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 3)
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In Defense of the Articles of Confederation (February/March 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 1)
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The American Presidency (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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The Self-Made Founder (April/May 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 2)
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Washington Acropolis (April 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 2)
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The First Act of Submarine Warfare (September 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 6)
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Behind the Federal Facade (May/June 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 4)
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We Banked on Them (July/August 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 4)
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The Hostage Rescue, 1796 (February 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 1)
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Native Americans First See White Men from the Shore (Spring 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 1)
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The Perilous Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (June/July 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3)
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How History Made the Constitution (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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Soldier in a Longboat (February 1960 | Volume: 11, Issue: 2)
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The Sewing Table (October 1994 | Volume: 45, Issue: 6)
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Washington Gives Haughty General Lee the Boot at Monmouth (June/July 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 3)
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The Story of El Camino Real (April/May 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 2)
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George Washington: “The Tyrant, Instead of the Savior, of his Country" (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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The World Turned Upside Down (October 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 5)
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Introduction: Revisiting Concord and Lexington (Spring 2025 | Volume: 70, Issue: 2)
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Dolley's Moment... (Fall 2009 | Volume: 59, Issue: 3)
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McCullough's "The Pioneers" (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
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“Times That Try Men’s Souls” (Spring 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 2)
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Historical Documents

Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
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Text of the 4th Amendment
4th Amendment to the Constitution
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The Royal Academy of Farting
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Franklin
“Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Hamilton and Washington
Letter to George Washington from Alexander Hamilton
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Federalist Papers
Federalist No. 78
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Measures Proposed to Amend the Constitution
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Federalist No. 48
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The document on permanent display in the Rotunda is the enrolled original Joint Resolution passed by Congress on September 25, 1789, proposing 12-not 10-amendments to the Constitution.
U.S. Bill of Rights
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President Thomas Jefferson
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
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First Bank of the United States
Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
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Caroline Churchill
"Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
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Historical Images

Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878
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President John Adams
Portrait of John Adams
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Sugarhouse Prison
Rhinelander's sugar house & residence
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Collections

Signing the Magna Carta
The Magna Carta Comes to America, by A.E. Dick Howard
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Signing the Constitution
Was the Constitution An Economic Document? by Henry Steele Commager
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