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Founding Edits: How Revisions to America’s Most Important Documents Still Inform Our World

Thu, April 3, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), Palmer House Hilton, Floor: 3rd, Salon 12

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Founding Edits considers the redactions to America's founding-era texts. From the slavery clause in the draft Declaration to the revision to the Constitution’s Preamble, the emendations are part of an American narrative that has not been told.

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