Complex sentence: Reminiscent of the Sally Hemings debates that have persisted to the present, the discovery of the Mecklenburg Resolves led to a long running controversy, with many arguing that the Mecklenburg Declaration was a distortion of the authentic Mecklenburg Resolves.
Split into simpler sentences: Reminiscent of the Sally Hemings debates that have persisted to the present, the discovery of the Mecklenburg Resolves led to a long running controversy on the matter of the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration. Many began to suspect that the Mecklenburg Declaration was a distortion of the authentic Mecklenburg Resolves.