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Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

by Robert Allison, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Maya Jasanoff, Robert G. Parkinson, Carla Gardina Pestana, Andrew Schocket, Alexander Tsesis, Zara Anishanslin, Kathleen DuVal, Caitlin Fitz, Annette Gordon-Reed, Tiya Miles, Johann N. Neem, Peter S. Onuf, Steven Pincus, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, Claudio Saunt, Karin Wulf, Nicole Eustace, Sarah Georgini via Declaration Resources Project on June 1, 2017

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Review: "The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution"

A new book argues that the Revolution was fueled by the racist propaganda of Patriot leaders.

by Gautham Rao via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on November 25, 2018

The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame

A review of Robert Parkinson’s book “The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution”.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on January 19, 2017

Sesationalized painting of Native Americans about to scalp a white woman. The Murder of Jane McCrae by John Vanderlyn, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

“White People,” Victimhood, and the Birth of the United States

White racial victimhood was a primary source of power for settlers who served as shock troops for the nation.

by Gregory Rodriguez via Contra Mundum on June 9, 2022

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

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