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When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

Literary Hub 13 May 2026 13h ago
When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence
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In the summer of 1951, a month after the Declaration celebrated its 175th anniversary, an unmarked panel truck pulled into the basement of the Library of Congress. Once loaded, it drove to the Maryland campus of the National Bureau of
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