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Newspapers and Revolution

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Cassandra Berman

In his excellent essay “Reading the Republic: Newspapers in Early America,” historian Jeffrey L. Pasley – an upcoming guest in our seminar – engages in a curious exercise.  In order to contextualize the political and social world of the Early … 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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