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Between the Revolution and the Civil War: How will you teach about the 3 to 4 generations that lived between 1776 and 1861 differently? In other words, how have you come to understand this time period better than you did before?

Like most Americans, I had previously been under the general impression that the generations in between the War of Independence and the Civil War worked steadily to incorporate the fundamental liberties and values that the original Colonists pursued in seeking emancipation from the British royal crown in the first place. In particular, we have always learned that religious freedom and the right to practice religion freely and without fear of government intervention or persecution were fundamental tenets of the early American people. Similarly, the contemporary historical narrative dramatically downplays the degree to which the white Americans and the federal government exploited the Native Americans unfairly, in many respects, even committing genocide against them throughout the 19th century, all while supposing to represent the "land of the free and the home of the brave" as well as the Christian ideals promoted in American churches.

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I have come to understand that period as (also) being characterized by rampant religious persecution of certain religions (such as Catholics) in several states and at the behest of state authorities following the model of state-compelled religious affiliation because of which we supposedly left England to establish religious freedom. I have come to understand that the true history of the white people in America in between 1776 and 1861 deserves much more moral criticism and correspondingly less heroism than typically associated with that period of American history. Our treatment of the North American Natives might not have been quite as horrific and brutal in the short-term as the treatment of the South American peoples by the Spaniards whose names are still associated with parades and American high schools in their honor. On the other hand, it….....

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