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Road To Ruin: Elias Boudinot And The Internal Conquest Of The Cherokee Nation, Sarah Scott
Road To Ruin: Elias Boudinot And The Internal Conquest Of The Cherokee Nation, Sarah Scott
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Reframing The Republic: Images And Art In Post-Revolutionary America, Lauren Lyons
Reframing The Republic: Images And Art In Post-Revolutionary America, Lauren Lyons
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Following the American Revolution the United States had to prove they deserved to be a player on the European world stage. Images were one method the infant nation used to make this claim and gain recognition from European powers. By examining early American portraits, eighteenth and nineteenth century plays, and American and European propaganda this paper will argue that images were used to show the United States as a world power. This argument will be presented with a particular emphasis on classic motifs and Republican imagery. By evoking the Golden Age of both Rome and Greece the United States was …