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Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket
Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket
Andrew M Schocket
The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation’s founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation’s aspirations. Americans’ increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. It’s also …
Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Corrigan
Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Corrigan
Ellen K. Corrigan
Text panel from “The Art of Representation: Portraits of the Founding Fathers,” a local exhibit in support of the Booth Library installation of the ALA-PPO/NEH traveling exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, on display January 12-February 25, 2011.
Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Kathryn Corrigan
Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Kathryn Corrigan
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Text panel from “The Art of Representation: Portraits of the Founding Fathers,” a local exhibit in support of the Booth Library installation of the ALA-PPO/NEH traveling exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, on display January 12-February 25, 2011.
Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Corrigan
Art Of Representation: Portraits Of The Founding Fathers, Ellen Corrigan
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Text panel from “The Art of Representation: Portraits of the Founding Fathers,” a local exhibit in support of the Booth Library installation of the ALA-PPO/NEH traveling exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, on display January 12-February 25, 2011.