Handling History:
Exhibition Allows Teachers, Students to Touch Rare Documents
Some artifacts date as far back as 1250

OXFORD, Miss. - As Marvin King thumbed through an autographed, first-edition copy of the "Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" published in 1846, the awareness that he was holding a revered document in U.S. history gave him goose bumps.

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How the West was Won: Originally written in 1215, the Magna Carta established the principle of the rights of individuals and has become the touchstone of Western law.
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Model Steam Engine

Old Books: The Remnant Trust collection of historic documents on display at the University of Mississippi museum.
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