Things you might not know about Dallas: We have an original copy of the Declaration of Independence

https://www.dmagazine.com/micropost/dallas-public-library-declaration-of-independence/

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Mary Katharine Goddard nsigned the Declaration of Independence and risked hanging by doing so. Most people don’t know who she was or why she signed it. Review-> #BookThreads #BookSky #Bookstagram #DeclarationofIndependence #MysticOwlPublishing #HistoricalFiction #Netgalley #ARCReview #WomensFiction

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson editorial project has mounted an interactive digital exhibit on the creation of the Declaration of Independence.

https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/declaration-of-independence/

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“Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game. We have admitted the principle that people are unequal and that some people are better than others. ... At that point, all any of us can do is to hope that no one in power decides that we belong in one of the lesser groups.”

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-11-2026

Letters from an American – February 11, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson

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Letters from an American, February 11, 2026

By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 11, 2026

On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.

Abraham Lincoln grew up to become the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the country through the Civil War, preserving the concept of American democracy. It was a system that had never been fully realized but that he still saw as “the last, best hope of earth” to prove that people could govern themselves.

“Four score and seven years ago,” he told an audience at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in November 1863, “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Lincoln dated the founding of the nation from the Declaration of Independence rather than the Constitution, the document enslavers preferred because of that document’s protection of property. In the Declaration, the Founders wrote that they held certain “truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”

Continue/Read Original Article Here: February 11, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson

For all of the legitimate comparisons between the current regime in DC and Nazi Germany, there’s plenty of US history that is echoing right now as well. As Dr Richardson puts it:

“History is doing that rhyming thing again.”

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-31-2026

#CallforPapers #CfP by the Obama Institute Mainz for a student #conference

topic: “‘We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
deadline: February 28, 2026
conference dates: June 19- 20, 2026.

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link for details: http://www.obama-institute.com/call-for-papers-we-hold-these-truths-250-years-later/

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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