Teaching American History Application Survey

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Year 1 (2007/08): The 17th & 18th Centuries

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Readings Week #1

Exploring the Causes of the American Revolution

T.H. Breen, “Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising,” The Journal of American History 84:1 (June 1997): 13-39.

Woody Holton, “The Ohio Indians and the Coming of the American Revolution,” Journal of Southern History 60:3 (August 1994): 453-478.

Peter Conn (ed.), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), pp. 145-162, 171-180.

David Waldstreicher, “The Vexed Story of Human Commodification told by Benjamin Franklin and Venture Smith,” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 2004): 268-278.

Alfred Young, “George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 38:4 (Oct. 1981): 562-623.

“Declaration of Independence: A History,” U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (May 26, 2008).

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