A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Washington DC, United States by TravelPod blogger Tjs titled “We The People of the United States” Tjs’s travel blog entry: “Today we saw bits and pieces of history. Literally. We went to the National Museum of American History, one of the Smithsonian Buildings. We saw things ranging from Judy Garland’s ruby slippers, to Apollo Ohno’s skates. From the hat of Abraham Lincoln to a life vest from the Titanic. We saw the gold nugget that started the Gold Rush, the white flag used for surrender at Appomattox, a Stradivarius Quartet of instruments, and Martha Washington’s dress from the 1780s! They had special exhibits (which we appreciated, already having seen Museums about Truman, Jefferson, and Washington) about the Presidency, Abraham Lincoln, and The First Ladies. Then we went to the Archives of the United States of America. We saw one of the originals of the Magna Carta, and the original “Charters of Freedom”: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution (awesome!), and the Bill of Rights. It was very dark in there (to preserve the documents, I guess); there were guards behind the documents, and you weren’t allowed to video or take pictures, which was a little confusing to me because in the movie, National Treasure, the Declaration was in a large, bright room; Riley was using a video camera, and I don’t remember those constant guards. The one thing that was the same, though, was the special glass and green row of …

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