By Michael Henninger
An original copy of the Bill of Rights sits on display inside Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ Posner Center for Special Collections, a testament to the genesis of the American experiment.
This Constitution Day, Carnegie Mellon will host a symposium launching the university’s America250 programming, which commemorates the sestercentennial of American independence. The offerings will reflect on the nation’s founding documents while engaging the questions that will shape its future. The formation, foundation and evolution of Carnegie Mellon is truly an American tale.
“We have gone from a trade school with a muddy campus to one of the leading research universities in the world — and to have done that in 125 years is a really improbable story,” said Julia Corrin, the Michael and Lonna Smith University Archivist and associate dean for distinctive collections at CMU. “To have had ambitions that great, and to have carried it out, is really a microcosm of the American story.”
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