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The history of Indianapolis lives in old newspaper archives. Can we get to it?

  • Tracey Compton, Indianapolis Public Editor

Back in the day, when newspapers were flush with resources, they had internal libraries or archives of all of their stories, casually referred to as morgues. It was common practice for reporters to “check the morgue” before writing any story about the community. Reporters could learn the history of almost anything in Indianapolis by checking […]

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The Declaration of Independence Is a Dying Document, and It Has Nothing to Do With Politics

  • Karee Blunt

The Declaration of Independence is disappearing, and it has nothing to do with the country's current divides. The document at the center of the nation's 250th birthday has faded so badly over two and a half centuries that large sections of it read as blank parchment. The bold "In Congress, July 4, 1776" at the top still holds up, and John Hancock's signature is still there. Past that, a lot of the text disappears into the page.