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Barry Faulkner's Declaration of Independence mural, showing Thomas Jefferson presenting the document to John Hancock before members of the Continental Congress

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The Declaration as Allegory

July 4, 2026

Barry Faulkner's monumental 1930s murals crown the Declaration and the Constitution in the National Archives. A look at the allegory—war and peace, and Lincoln hidden as a storm cloud.