Topic: Symbols
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Hanoverian Coat of Arms
This image shows the coat of arms of the House of Hanover, which ruled Great Britain after 1714. George III was the third of the Hanoverian monarchs. The royal coat...
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Jefferson to Robert Walsh
In this 1818 letter, Thomas Jefferson recalls Benjamin Franklin’s contributions to the American Revolution to a colleague interested in writing its history. He rejects negative suggestions about Franklin’s character, celebrates...
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Jefferson’s Cipher to Lewis & Clark, Was It Necessary?
In this lesson, students will study the journals of Lewis and Clark and analyze the journals, specifically looking at information in the journal entries that describe hardships faced by Lewis...
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La Destruction de la Statue Royale
This image, created in Europe, depicts the scene in New York City as it might have looked when inhabitants pulled down the statue of George III. After the Declaration of...
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Liberian Coat of Arms
Liberia’s crest portrays the West African republic as a haven for slaves and free blacks whose “love of liberty” led them across the ocean to live in peace as free...
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Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduc’d
This 1767 political cartoon warns Britain of the costs of enforcing its new taxation policies in North America. The cut up body suggests that the empire will be torn apart....
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Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall
In this powerful July 5, 1852 speech given in Rochester, NY, African-American abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass compares the freedoms being celebrated by white citizens on July 4 to...
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Rising Sun Armchair
This chair was used in 1787 by George Washington during the federal Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. At the end of the Convention, Benjamin Franklin reportedly commented, “I have often looked...
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St. Edward’s Crown
This print depicts the royal regalia, or the ceremonial ornaments worn by English kings and queens. St. Edward’s crown with its ancient jewels, shown here at top left, is the...
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