Historic Scenes

Shays' Rebellion and the Making of a Nation recounts this event in six illustrated historic scenes with a prologue and an epilogue. Each scene is described from the perspectives of the key groups that were present. Move your cursor over the scene images below to reveal a brief description; click a scene detail to go to that scene.

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  August, 1774

  Prologue:
  A Revolutionary People
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  February, 1788

  Epilogue:
  Our Debt to Shays