Creating the United States
April 12, 2008–May 5, 2012
Imagination and vision played critical roles in the creative act of forming a self-governing United States of America. The collections of the Library of Congress are unquestionably the worlds best source for documenting that process. This exhibition offers a remarkable opportunity to learn in a fresh new way how the founding documents that emerged from this period were forged out of insight, invention, and creativity, as well as collaboration and much compromise.
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Interactives
These interactives reveal the source documents and the careful crafting of language that laid the foundation of the American republic.
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