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Teaching The American Revolution Using Ken Burns’s Documentary—Episodes 4, 5, and 6
In early 1778, from the headquarters of the Continental Army in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, General George Washington’s aide-de-camp, John Laurens, wrote several letters to his father Henry who had recently …
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What Colonel Christopher Greene Owned (and Did not Own) in 1779 and 1781
Christopher Greene was one of Rhode Island’s greatest heroes of the Revolutionary War, but his life was tragically cut short. He was appointed a lieutenant in the Kentish Guards, an …
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Governor, Chief Justice, and Signer Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins (1707–85), statesman, pamphleteer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born on March 7, 1707, in Providence easterly of a former Indian village called Mashapaug. This site …
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Teaching The American Revolution Using Ken Burns’s Documentary—Episodes 2 and 3
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