FIRESIDE CHAT: The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History

15aug7:00 pm8:00 pmFIRESIDE CHAT: The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History Free

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Fireside Chat with Dr. Michael D. Hattem

The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History

Thursday, August 15, 2024
7:00 PM ET
Virtual Event | Free

While the American Revolution is the agreed-upon beginning of our nation’s origins, the meaning of that revolution has never achieved anywhere near the same degree of consensus. For almost as long as the United States has existed, a wide range of political and social actors have narrativized and reimagined the Revolution to match their current climates and personal agendas. Through revealing the Revolution’s singular presence as an American national myth, Dr. Hattem reveals the ever-changing nature of the Revolution’s meaning, how the nation’s founding is used far more often as a divisive tool than a unifying one, and how reinventing the past is a central and long-lived American sociopolitical pastime.

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August 15, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)

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