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Learn about the complicated past of an important founding father

Judy Woodruff visits Independence Hall to commemorate America's 250th anniversary with historians Lindsay Chervinsky and Ron Chernow.

The founding-era documents are traveling beyond Washington, D.C., for the first time

Discuss the first line of the Declaration of Independence, and then find the line in foundational documents that align best with your own ideals

Learn more why Ellis describes slavery and the treatment of Native Americans as great contradictions in American history

This daily news lesson is based on Judy Woodruff's America at a Crossroads series