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How Should We Commemorate the American Revolution?
['Paul Massari']
The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
What is the mission of Revolution 250, and what’s the strategy for making historical events resonate with a modern, diverse public?
Image Revolution 250 Chair Robert Allison is a professor of history, language, and global culture at Boston's Suffolk University.
/ Suffolk UniversityRevolution 250 was created because many different organizations were working independently on their own stories connected to the American Revolution.
In some ways, we modeled [Revolution 250] on the organizations that, from 1760 to 1775, brought together different people who recognized a common interest.
As both a historian and the chair of Revolution 250, what do you find is the most widely misunderstood aspect of the nation’s founding?