Carol Berkin: The Role of Women During the Revolutionary War
For more historians' lectures, including Jill Lepore on King Philip's War, Joseph J. Ellis on Thomas Jefferson, David Hackett Fischer on Washington's Crossing, and Joyce Appleby on the Post-Revolutionary Generation, please visit our audio podcast page
Issue No. 7, 2006: The Legal Status of Women, 1776-1830
Issue No. 4, 2005: The Invention of the Fourth of July
Issue No. 11, 2007: Revolutionary Philadelphia
Issue No. 13, 2007: The Constitution
CURRICULUM MODULES FROM OUR WEBSITE
The Revolutionary War
The Constitution
The New Nation (1780 - 1800)
The Jeffersonian Era (1800 - 1815)
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
(Random House)
2009: Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
(W.W. Norton and Company)
2008: Marcus Rediker
The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking)
2007: Charles Rappleye
Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
2006: Stacy Schiff
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (Henry Holt and Company, 2005)
For more, see the Institute's George Washington Book Prize page
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Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States
Traveling Exhibition: "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America"
Based upon a major exhibition of the same name which was on display at the New-York Historical Society. This exhibition examines Hamilton's central role during the Revolutionary War and Founding period (1774-1804) in creating the economic, constitutional, social, journalistic, political and foreign policy templates for modern America. (seven freestanding panels, 65-75 running feet ). Book an exhibition
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North American Colonies, 1733
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Calendar of the American Revolution
Featuring daily historical facts and full-color portraits of leaders of the American Revolution such as George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.
The Founding Era: History in a Box - $150
The Founding Era is a multimedia resource kit that includes: a notebook and CD containing primary source documents, artwork, maps, and study questions; posters of documents and images; two interactive CD-ROMs based on exhibitions (George Washington and Alexander Hamilton); portrait cards of key figures from the Founding Era; two comparative timelines; and Historians on the Record: The Founding Era, a DVD of thirteen lectures by leading scholars. More
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