WILLIAMSBURG — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation recently announced it had partnered with iCivics to release a new online game.

The game — Investigation Declaration — shows middle- and high-school students how the Declaration of Independence captured the ideas of the Enlightenment and inspired movements toward freedom and democracy across the Atlantic world during the 18th and 19th centuries, the foundation said.

The game takes place in an alternate time and space where an international crime conglomerate has hacked the fictional Bureau of Ideas, corrupting every file related to freedom, democracy and individual rights, according to the foundation. Players take the role of “Agent 6” as they pursue the origins of these files and discover how ideas spread throughout the Atlantic world i

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