Author: Marc Lee

Marc Lee holds a B.A. in History and an M.S.Ed. in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education from Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include early American history, Revolutionary-era manuscripts, and the preservation and transmission of historical documents. He is an independent researcher and collector of early American manuscripts and ephemera, with particular interests in the lives of ordinary Americans during the Revolutionary and early national periods.

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From Roxbury to Exeter: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Song

Revolutionary patriotic songs did not always remain fixed after entering circulation. Soldiers, civilians, and families copied and performed them in manuscripts and other informal settings, allowing their wording and content to change over time.[1] A small manuscript ledger kept in rural Exeter, Rhode Island, between approximately 1793 and 1798 preserves evidence of this process. Amid […]

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