A reckoning with the Revolution. Start with ‘Freedom Trail.'
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We need a new history of the Revolution.
Barbara Brown
Brookline
The writer is the founder of Hidden Brookline.
I am pleased to read about how museums are understanding that the whole picture of the Revolutionary War needs to be presented and that the Concord Museum is taking clear steps to include the marginalized citizens of the period to make a full-bodied history ('Evolutionary thinking on Revolutionary War').
I always wonder which source material folks use. This project brought immediately to mind Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' and Ray Raphael's 'A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence.' These authors deserve credit for having taken this subject on
decades before it became fashionable for people in influential positions to do so.
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