colonial America 
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SOURCE: TIME
12/17/2020
How America Keeps Adapting the Story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to Match the Story We Need to Tell
by Peter C. Mancall
The prevailing memory of Plymouth has shifted as Americans have used it as an allegory for their contemporary concerns. Most notably, the harsh religious orthodoxy of Plymouth was converted by the 19th century to stand for religious liberty, a concept the Pilgrims would have found odious.
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11/22/2020
UCLA Historian Carla Pestana Debunks Myths About the Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony
by James Thornton Harris
Alert Tom Cotton: Plymouth Rock, the Mayflower Compact, and the origins of Thanksgiving are just a few of the things Professor Carla Pestana finds in need of historical revision.
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9/27/2020
Anti-racist Lens Distorts History on New Jersey “Freeholders”
by Tony Fels
Beginning in 2021, New Jersey county officials will no longer be known as "freeholders." Although the author concedes the term is archaic, and "county commissioner" is a more informative descriptor, the term "freeholder" is not a relic of past racism.
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SOURCE: Native America: A History
9/3/2020
I'm So Bored with the Lost Colonists
by Michael Leroy Oberg
Speculative energy focused on the fate of the "Lost Colonists" of Roanoke Island might be better spent investigating how Native people responded to their arrival.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/1/2020
Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says
Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area.
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SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
8/17/2020
‘The Mystery Is Over’: Researchers Say They Know What Happened To ‘Lost Colony’
“You’re robbing an entire nation of people of their history by pretending Croatoan is a mystery on a tree,” said Scott Dawson.
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SOURCE: Washington Examiner
5/5/2020
'Not the Way to do History': Princeton University Historian Blasts 1619 Project as 'Historical Sloppiness' Unworthy of Pulitzer
Allen Guelzo has been a major critic of the New York Times's "1619 Project" and objects to the projects central essay winning the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
7/14/2019
The Hidden History of Liberty Island
Before the statue and long before the brand-new museum, there were pirates, real-estate ventures and public executions
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SOURCE: NY Times
3/25/19
A Colonial-Era Cemetery Resurfaces in Philadelphia
Remains buried in the First Baptist cemetery were believed to have been moved in 1860. But many coffins and bones were still there.
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