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An 1823 copy of the US Declaration of Independence by William Stone; the original was written by Thomas Jefferson and other congressional delegates and passed on 4 July 1776.

Swaddled infant votive from the sanctuary of Peciano near Cortona, 3rd-2nd century BCE. Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca e della città di Cortona.

James Warren, a Massachusetts politician during the American Revolution. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1763. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren, Boston, 1805. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Portrait of Thomas Hutchinson, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the leadup to the American Revolution. Painting by Edward Truman, 1741. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Terracotta goblet with gazelles and ibexes, found in grave no. 725 in Shahr-e Sukhteh, southern Iran, Early Bronze Age, c. 2800-2400 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, acc. no. 12947. Photo by Nima Fakoorzadeh (Baloot Noghrei) Shahr-e...

A detailed baked clay model of a sheep's liver from ancient Babylon. Written records may be representative of signs on the organ and were probably used to improve divination. Old Babylonian period, Sippar, 1900-1600 BCE. The British Museum...

Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814, American poet, playwright, and political activist during the American Revolution. Oil on canvas portrait by John Singleton Copley, c. 1763. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Siege of Charleston, South Carolina (29 March to 12 May 1780) during the American Revolutionary War, painting by Alonzo Chappel, 1862. Brown University, Providence.

American Sgt. Jasper raises the South Carolina flag over the Spring Hill redoubt during the assault on Savannah, 9 October 1779. Moments later, the British defenders of the redoubt opened fire, killing Jasper and forcing the Americans to...