The Themes below provide a way of understanding each historic scene within the context of four different humanities themes. Select a scene (listed across the top of the screen) and move down the column to the theme you are interested in. Click the theme essay title to read the short essay; click a scene title to go to that scene.
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January, 1783
War's End |
Fall 1783 &1784
Boom & Bust |
September, 1786
Petition & Protest |
January, 1787
A Bloody Encounter |
March, 1787
Taking the Oath |
May, 1787
Making a Nation |
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Getting By & Getting Ahead
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*Paper Currency—
When to Take It, When to Let It Go? |
*Profitable Peace? |
"The Labyrinth of Debt" |
"The
Most Distressing Situation" |
*Fiscal Relief |
*The Federal Solution |
| Economy, currency and the controversy surrounding
state-issued paper money |
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We the People |
*A
Standing Army |
*In Debt to the World |
*Consititutional Resistance? |
"the people assembled in arms" |
*Up
Close: Taking the Oath |
*We the States or
We the People? |
| Government, democracy, dissent and loyalty—who gets to decide? |
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The Wider World |
American
Cincinnatus |
Ginseng
and Salt Cod |
*"Great tumults and contentions" |
Reporting a Bloody Encounter |
Mercy
or Retribution |
*The Republican Experiment —
Fatally Flawed? |
| National and international affairs and their impact on personal choices and behaviors |
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Everyday Life |
*A
People's Army |
*Adding
Up |
*Divided Communities |
Militia
Men and Regulators: Who was at the Arsenal? |
*Oath or Fight? |
Communities United,
Communities Divided |
| Post-Revolutionary society—the promises of the American Revolution and how they were, or were not, fulfilled |
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