Declaration of Independence

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Rare copy of Declaration of Independence on display at Wash U

Evie Hemphill

Two hundred forty-two years ago this week, the American colonies formally declared their independence from Great Britain. But the Continental Congress’…
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Gov. Nixon to recreate first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, a family legacy

Kelly Moffitt

Monday, July 8, 1776. It’s a “warm sunshine morning” in Philadelphia and the revolutionary Col. John Nixon, the city’s sheriff and distant relative of…