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Mourning A People's Historian: Michael Mizell-Nelson, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mourning A People's Historian: Michael Mizell-Nelson, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mary Niall Mitchell
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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 …
Reflections On Implementing Innovative And Collaborative History From The Nation’S First National Historic Site, Margo Shea, Maryann Zujewski, Jonathan Parker
Reflections On Implementing Innovative And Collaborative History From The Nation’S First National Historic Site, Margo Shea, Maryann Zujewski, Jonathan Parker
Margo Shea