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Declaration of Independence
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:05:55 -0700, Oren wrote:
Have a good day tomorrow. "Subjects." That's what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies. "...Over the smudge, Jefferson then wrote the word "citizens." "Dr. Fenella France, a research chemist at the Library of Congress, shows recent imaging of the document. (Susan Walsh - AP)" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...070205525.html I wonder why the big deal this year? I spent a year or two reading about the Declaration and signers a decade ago & 'subjects' was always the way that smudge was read. Here's a Princeton page with all the changes annotated- http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/d...on.html#_edn10 It cites Boyd's 1945 interpretation of the rough draft. Good news story, and neat new toy-- but hardly 'new history'. Jim |
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