The National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) is pushing for the passage of a Magna Carta for Senior Citizens as part of ...

BOSTON, MA – Imagine stumbling upon a forgotten treasure in your attic, only to discover it’s a priceless artifact. That’s essentially what happened in the hallowed halls of Harvard Law School Library ...

In May 1983 a major event took place in Corpus Christi. The Magna Carta — the Great Charter — was here. One of several reissues, this Magna Carta Exemplar is housed at the Lincoln Cathedral in England ...

It was written over 1,000 years ago, and commissioned by an English King – so what makes the Magna Carta one of the most important documents in US history? Untold is a free collection of short, ...

The Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215, when King John met with the Barons at Runnymede, a meadow on the south bank of the River Thames, just outside London. It is considered one of the most ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s national-champion debate team continues its time in the spotlight next week after accepting an invitation from Harvard Law School to participate in its ...

The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter” — to which England’s King John affixed his seal June 15, 1215, 810 years ago Sunday — was essentially a peace treaty that was intended to end a civil war between ...

The discovery that Harvard unknowingly had an original of the 1300 Magna Carta, the document that moved human history a small but significant step forward by obliging a monarch to respect the rights ...

Two British scholars discovered that an innocuous Harvard Law School Library document was actually an original 1300 copy of the Magna Carta. Believed to be a copy from 1327 when it was purchased for ...

A "copy" of the famous document known as a symbol against tyranny and as a "cornerstone of freedom" has been discovered to be authentic. Harvard Law School in 1946 bought a "copy" of the Magna Carta ...

In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that limited ...

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