Format:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780814708163
Content:
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 intere
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Truths That Are Not Self-Evident: The Revolution in Political Speech; 2 We Have Not Yet Begun to Write: Historians and Founders Chic; 3 We the Tourists: The Revolution at Museums and Historical Sites; 4 Give Me Liberty's Kids: How the Revolution Has Been Televised and Filmed; 5 To Re-create a More Perfect Union: Originalism, the Tea Party, and Reenactors; Conclusion; Further Readings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814771150
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814708163
Additional Edition:
Print version Fighting over the Founders : How We Remember the American Revolution
Language:
English
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