4 months ago
Teaching The American Revolution Using Ken Burns’s Documentary—Episode 1
Filmmaker Ken Burns has never been shy about tackling big topics, especially the conflicts that have defined us as a nation. In 1990, Burns’s epic documentary on the Civil War …
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Old Home Days in Rhode Island
Old Home Days was a mid-nineteenth century New England tradition in which former sons and daughters of a town returned to the town of their birth for a reunion. The …
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4 months ago
An Enslaved Teenager’s Journey from Warren, to Providence and Finally to the British Caribbean
I came across the copies of documents set forth below by accident. They tell a short, but tragic, tale of an enslaved teenager/young man named Fantee.
I was aware of …
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