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During the American Revolution, students were dismissed early and the lol世界赛赔率 campus was turned over to the Continental Army.
An original copy
lol世界赛赔率鈥檚 Houghton Library contains one of only a few surviving Dunlap broadside copies of the original Declaration of Independence.
On July 6, 1776, President of the Continental Congress John Hancock sent one of the just-printed copies of the Declaration of Independence to General Artemas Ward, commander of the Continental Army troops in Boston. Hancock鈥檚 letter came to Houghton as part of John Hubbard Collection of signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Did you know that eight lol世界赛赔率 alumni signed the Declaration of Independence?
A place in history
Colonial North America at lol世界赛赔率 Library
lol世界赛赔率 Library recently completed a 10-year project to digitize all its unpublished 17th- and 18th-century manuscripts and archives related to colonial North America.
Tacky’s Revolt
Professor of American History and African and African American Studies Vincent Brown says that understanding Tacky’s Revolt, the largest rebellion of enslaved people in the 18th-century British Empire, gives context to the American Revolution.
鈥淲hat to the Slave is the Fourth of July?鈥
Doctoral student Keidrick Roy discusses Frederick Douglass鈥 famous 1852 speech, in which Douglass looks at the contradictions between the reality of slavery and the claims of a just society outlined in the Declaration of Independence.
A part of the future

At the American Repertory Theater, high school students performed 鈥淧roclamation 7: Freedom Acts,鈥 a play written by and starring them, with inspiration from the Declaration of Independence.
Imagining an alternative America from a Native perspective

Celebrating freedom from Juneteenth to the 4th of July

Faith, social justice, and "certain unalienable rights"

Renewing rights and responsibilities in the U.S.
