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commonplace skip to navigation skip to search skip to content skip to content toggle navigation teach learn objects about contact teach learn objects objects dishing up history john demos in order to understand the dish i will have to find my way through much unfamiliar territory it will be quite a journey full of inquiry and fresh learning learn two roads to freedom william lee harry washington and living the paradox of the american revolution melchior baltazar enslaved men and women encountered revolutionary rhetoric not as abstract theory but amid a crisis that destabilized authority and opened new possibilities for pursuing their own freedom learn secret loyalty and public respectability the transformation of phi beta kappa in its first half century adam arenson secrecy itself seemed at odds with republican values and liable to shield corruption or treason teach read more books immigration is about staying put too karin wulf the u s constitution creates a federal system where the national state and local governments share authority but the location of the dividing line between central and local authority over migration has been in the past and continues today to be politically determined learn the other elizabeth and mary anglo powhatan marriages and the virginia company of london kelly watson by employing marriage as a technology of imperialism the virginia company hoped to turn its struggling overseas colonies into stable productive english communities teach whose 250th lindsay dicuirci and duncan faherty as students of early american life preparing to commemorate america s 250th year of independence what should we know and what might we do learn what caused the american revolution historians views from the sesquicentennial era bruce dearstyne historians today may have varying interpretations of what caused the revolution just as their predecessors did a century ago objects pasted indians john f watson scrapbook culture and the construction of a lenape image james blake rather than preserving a direct record of native life the page reveals the processes by which early american antiquarians assembled and interpreted the past teach read more books john garrison marks thy will be done george washington s legacy of slavery and the fight for american memory unc press 2026 karin wulf if there are two rules about early american history one is that no matter how vast george washington will always be instructive learn the northeast corner rediscovering the final resting place of concord s black community beth van duzer ultimately the search for concord s lost graves is not solely about stones and names it is about restoring individuals to history one clue at a time read more creative writing creative writing writing william billings david stowe creative writing hot tennessee sun lisa roney read more reviews reviews listening for freemen diana louis reviews john adams and the making of the presidency ethan healey read more about welcome to 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