Andrew M Schocket: 2 books
Fighting over the Founders
How We Remember the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution.
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American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and
as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car...
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...