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Guttenberg, Carl, 1743-1790, engraver, The Tea-tax-tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution, 1778, Library of Congress, 1778

A satire expressing a Continental European view of the American Revolution, showing Father Time using a magic lantern to project the image of a teapot…

Tags: American Revolution, Art, British, Europe, Satire, Teapot, UK

Winslow Homer, The Country School, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1871

I touch the future. I teach. Christa McAuliffe, teacher and NASA space shuttle crew member Soon after the American Revolution, our founders argued…

Tags: 18th Century, American Revolution, Country School, Public Education, Public Schools

The Stamford Historical Society, New England Primer Part One, The Stamford Historical Society, 1990

Pages from the most popular and used textbook of the 18th century, the New England Primer. Using illustrations, rhyme, and often biblical context,…

Tags: 18th Century, ABCs, American Revolution, Colonies, Education, Equal Opportunity, New England Primer

Isaiah Thomas and Paul Revere, Massachusetts Spy, Library of Congress, July 7, 1774

The Massachusetts Spy, originally the Worcester Spy, was a newspaper published by Isaiah Thomas in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts in the 18th…

Tags: American Revolution, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Spy, Media, Newspaper