These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.

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Biographies And Autobiographies The Creative Archive Series

1. Explore biography, autobiography, and memoir with 20 mini-lessons, 20 sample anchor charts, guided practice sheets, 19 discussion guides and 20 reading prompts. Students will learn about text structure, verifiable facts, author’s attitude and more while exploring this genre.
2. Creative Autobiography Examples. Example of Autobiography of a Student. July 10th, 2018. My name is Elizabeth Austen. I was born on May 2, 2002 in Marseille, France. I was raised as a child of two cultures: American and French. Although my parents were born in the USA, they left for Marseille after their wedding because of career goals.
3. American Life in Autobiography 016.92 L628a. American Autobiography 1945-1980. All give lists of American autobiographies. Search the FLP catalog to see if the FLP has a copy of the autobiography you seek. Make an author search on the online catalog; for example, FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Search the ACCESS PA and OCLC.

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The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain.

As autobiography has evolved, so have canons of taste and protocols of reading. Those who are galled by the memoir boom and blame it for the imaginary demise of serious fiction argue that the tradition has radically devolved, and that books like 'The Kiss,' by Kathryn Harrison, represent the degeneration of a once ennobled form.

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The Constitution defines the framework of the Federal Government of the United States.

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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. It defines citizens’ and states’ rights in relation to the Government.

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Visit the Charters of Freedom

The Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom

Located on the upper level of the National Archives museum, the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom is the permanent home of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights.

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Designed by architect John Russell Pope as a shrine to American democracy, the ornate Rotunda with its soaring domed ceiling also features two murals by Barry Faulkner, depicting fictional scenes of the “presentations” of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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Founders Online

Through Founders Online, you can read and search through thousands of documents and records to and from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic. Their letters and journals are a kind of 'first draft' of the Charters of Freedom.