American Revolution: Extra Credit

For extra credit, you can tour a site associated with the American Revolution, and write an illustrated essay about how the site shapes historical memory/remembrance of the Revolution. That is, you should think of the site as a conscious construction to explain a certain story about a particular place and time. The meanings of the site may be multiple, ambiguous, or clear -- your essay is meant to illustrate the way the site creates (a) certain image(s) of the Revolution for a modern audience. It may also be relevant to explore, perhaps by talking to an employee at the site, when the site was "created" as a place of memory/remembrance. You may include your essay and images (personal photographs, post cards, relevant brochures, etc) in your journal, or hand it in separately. It should be submitted by April 27^th. .

You may visit any site related to the American Revolution, but if it is not on the list below, please check with me first:

Monmouth Battlefield State Park (Monmouth County)

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/monbat.html

Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania)

http://www.ushistory.org/Brandywine/

Valley Forge National Historical Park

http://www.nps.gov/vafo/

Washington Crossing Historic Park (Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania)

http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/

Saratoga National Historic Park (Saratoga, New York)

http://www.nps.gov/sara/

Independence National Park (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

http://www.nps.gov/inde/