US EditionMajor historical documents start journey across US as part of nation’s 250th anniversary celebration
Seven founding documents, including the 1783 Treaty of Paris and a rare 1823 engraving of the Declaration of Independence, will tour local museums free to the public, inspiring civic engagement.
- On Monday, the Freedom Plane is scheduled to depart Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and head to Kansas City, Missouri, where documents will transfer to the National WWI Museum and Memorial.
- For the first time, the records will travel together outside Washington DC as part of America's 250th anniversary this year, and organisers say the tour aims to bring tangible history to local communities as a civics lesson.
- Using air, road and rail, organisers will move exhibits nationwide, including a Boeing 737 'Freedom Plane' and six 18-wheeler Freedom Trucks, to carry seven founding-era documents.
- Documents will spend about two weeks in each city under National Archives staff supervision, with local museums, libraries and schools hosting more than 5,000 schoolchildren visits.
- The initiative recalls past national tours, but multiple coordinating bodies—America250 and Freedom 250—have prompted criticism in Washington.
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