Noah Webster

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Books and Publications, Critical Thinking, Historiography, Letters and Correspondence March 16, 2023 March 14, 2023

Thomas Jefferson and the Conditions of Good History: Writing About the American Revolution

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Thomas Jefferson has a Thucydidean, or fact-based, approach to the praxis of history. Evidence of that approach appeared early in his life, in his…

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Critical Thinking April 22, 2014 August 28, 2016

You Say Huzzah!
They Said Huzzay!

by Norman Fuss

Go to any Revolutionary War period living history program or reenactment and you hear it again and again. “Huzzah for Great Washington and the…

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