Founding Memories

Wall Maps
1. Phelps & Watson’s New Map of the United States
  In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, Phelps & Watson, New York publishers, chose to emphasize the country’s Revolutionary heritage as a way to establish a precarious unity in the face of profound sectional tensions.
2. Goff’s Historical Map of the United States: Wars and Revolutions
Textbooks
From patriotic myth to complex narratives, American textbooks have long shaped what generations of K-12 and University students have learned about the Revolutionary War.
America at 200: The Pedagogy of the Bicentennial
The American Bicentennial of 1976 was at heart a pedagogical endeavor. Commemorative events and newly published visual and narrative materials about the American Revolution and the United States were opportunities to retell, reify, and celebrate a narrative of American exceptionalism.

Teaching of the Revolution