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[skarphedinn]

Still laughing at that sinnamon roll john adams post from earlier

[classicamericanlit]

More on Liberty's Kids

DG's video post on the PBS show Liberty's Kids reminded me of an old essay a friend of mine, Jill Lepore, now an American history professor at Harvard, wrote about the show just before it premiered. It was published in the terrific online journal of early American culture, Common-place, which you really should check out.

[classicamericanlit]

Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, on how the meanings attached to this brutally destructive war have changed as the attitudes about historical actors and the political pressures on those actors have changed.