Historical documents start journey across US for nation's 250th anniversary

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Source: ABC News/AP

March 2, 2026, 8:30 AM


Some of the United States' most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of the country's 250th anniversary commemoration.

Typically housed in highly controlled vaults under the watch of preservation experts at the National Archives, documents such as the 1783 Treaty of Paris that formally ended the Revolutionary War and the 1774 Articles of Association that urged colonists to boycott British goods are rarely moved.

But those documents, signed by George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and other American revolutionary leaders, will be making their way across the country and put on display for free at local museums. “It's tangible history, and tangible history inspires,” said Jim Byron, senior adviser to the acting archivist of the United States. “These documents have not traveled, and they’ve certainly not traveled collectively, ever. They are here in vaults.”

The Boeing 737 “Freedom Plane” transporting the documents is just one of many events and activities planned across the country to mark America's upcoming 250th anniversary celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. A congressionally chartered commission, America 250, and a separate White House-led initiative, called Freedom 250, are both coordinating events, an overlap that has faced some criticism in Washington.

Read more: https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/major-historical-documents-start-journey-us-part-nations-130673716

[Easterncedar]

1. Drape them in black.

[groundloop]

2. It's extremely difficult to feel patriotic right now.

I felt proud of this country when we elected a highly qualified black man to be President, now all I'm feeling is despair.

[Raven123]

3. Why not? Most of our officials in Washington DC aren't paying attention to them

[Bengus81]

4. Unless that fat ass NAZI keels off in the next few months that whole thing is a JOKE

This is NOT a democracy right now, at best this is an Authoritarian regime.

IMO it's NAZI America.

[BidenRocks]

5. What exactly is there to celebrate?

Time to follow the words and replace the government.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

It's past time!