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A lawyer for the school district accused the Alaska attorney general and education commissioner of “political grandstanding” ...

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When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

The New York Public Library has one of Thomas Jefferson's handwritten copies of the Declaration of Independence in its collection. Jonathan Blanc / New York Public Library A few days after the ...