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Liberty! or Liberty? // Revolution! or Revolution?

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Jeanna Kadlec

We concluded our Age of Revolution seminar by walking Boston’s landmark Freedom Trail with historians and guides from the Boston National Historical Park Service and the Bostonian Society. Nat Sheildly, a historian from the Bostonian Society, discussed the challenges he … Continue reading →

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Sensibility and Revolution: A Case Study

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jeanna Kadlec

In seminar this week, we started to talk about the discourse of sensibility. Sensibility was particularly prominent in Mary Ashburn Miller’s article, in which she linked sensibility to authenticity. Miller writes, “The more passionate an individual during the phase of … Continue reading →

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Thinking Citizenship

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Jeanna Kadlec

“Citizenship” was a topic that came up briefly during our last seminar, and I wanted to raise it as a subject for more discussion here. What are the varying categories of “citizen” or “citizenship” that we think of when discussing … Continue reading →

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William Henry Drayton and the Meaning of Revolution

Posted on October 8, 2013 by John Hannigan

One of my broader intellectual goals in this seminar is to track down the origins of the term “American Revolution.” In other words, when did eighteenth-century Americans begin using the phrase to describe what they were about, and what meaning … Continue reading →

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