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Authors: Matt Braun
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Christen Varley, “MA House Vote on Perry’s Illegal Immigration Amendment,” Greater Boston Tea Party, May 2, 2010, http://greaterbostonteaparty.com /2010/05/ma-house-vote-on-perrys-illegal-immigration-amendment/; Christen Varley, “ ‘Pass the Perry Amendment’ Rally,” Greater Boston Tea Party, May 19, 2010, http://greaterbostonteaparty.com/2010/05/pass-the-perry-amendment-rally/; Maria Sacchetti, “Tea Party Rally Calls for Senate Amendment on Illegal Immigrants,”
Boston Globe
, May 21, 2010.
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Massachusetts State Congress,
Massachusetts State Congress Journal
, 186th sess., April 28, 2010, 3–6; Massachusetts State Congress,
An Act Relative to Public Benefits
, H.R. 3387, 186th sess., January 7, 2009.
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Glenn Beck,
The Glenn Beck Show
, Fox News, New York, April 30, 2010.
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Glenn Beck,
The Glenn Beck Show
, Fox News, New York, May 7, 2010.
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Bill O’Reilly,
The O’Reilly Factor
, Fox News, New York, May 7, 2010.
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Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again,” in
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
, ed. Arnold Rampersad (New York: Knopf, 1998), 189.
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Organization of American Historians Executive Board of Directors, “Texas Textbook Resolution,” Organization of American Historians, May 12, 2010,
http://www.oah.org/news/20100512_texas_textbook_resolution.html
.
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E.g., letter from Fritz Fischer, chair, National Council for History Education, to the Texas State Board of Education, National Council for History Education, Inc., March 30, 2010,
http://www.nche.net/includes/downloads/nchelettertotexas.pdf
.
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Jonathan J. Cooper, “Arizona Governor Signs Bill Targeting Ethnic Studies,” Associated Press, May 12, 2010.
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Cynthia Dunbar, “A Christian Land Governed by Christian Principles,” Texas State Board of Education meeting, video clip, Texas Freedom Network, YouTube, May 21, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhGK9aYjDY
.
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Michael Brick, “Texas School Board Set to Vote Textbook Revisions,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2010; “Benjamin Todd Jealous Testimony Before Texas Board of Education,” video clip, NAACP Videos, YouTube, May 20, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_T3Z3y4n8
.
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Rachel Maddow,
The Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, New York, May 19, 2010; Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, “Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights,”
New York Times
, May 20, 2010; “Tea Party Candidate Causes Civil Rights Stir,”
New York Times
, May 21, 2010.
Adams, Abigail,
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Adams, John,
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on the authorship of
Common Sense
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on the Boston Massacre,
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on the effects of the Stamp Act,
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fear that his role in the American Revolution would be forgotten,
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growing hatred of Paine,
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on the meaning of the American Revolution,
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opinion of how the American Revolution would be viewed historically,
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as president,
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reply to Mercy Otis Warren’s depiction of him in her history of the American Revolution,
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support of patriot printers,
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Adams, Samuel,
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death of,
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irritation of with Paine,
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report on the Boston Massacre,
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statue of,
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Adams, Thomas Boylston,
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Adulateur, The
(M. O. Warren),
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“Advice to a Yo
ung Tradesman from an Old One” (B. Franklin),
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Afro-American Bicentennial Corporation,
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Age of Reason, The
(Paine),
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–43
neglect of in contemporary times,
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–47
Algerine Captive, The
(R. Tyler),
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Allison, Andrew,
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American Crisis
(Paine),
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American Political Tradition, The
(Hofstadter),
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American Revolution, the,
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–65
heritage of claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy,
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importance of to the Tea Party,
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meaning of,
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and the slavery issue,
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use of for varying political purposes,
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American Revolution Bicentennial Administration,
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American Revolution Bicentennial Commission,
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–73,
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American Slavery, American Freedom
(Morgan),
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American Weekly Mercury
,
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America’s Birthday: A Planning and Activity Guide for Citizens’ Participation During the Bicentennial Year
(Peoples Bicentennial Committee),
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Anti-Federalists,
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Antigua,
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“Apology for Printers, An” (B. Franklin),
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Aquinas, Thomas,
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Argument, Shewing that a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, An
(Trenchard),
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Armey, Dick,
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Articles of Confederation,
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“Attempt to Steal the Bicentennial, The,” Senate Judiciary Committee hearings concerning,
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Attucks, Crispus,
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–62,
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memorial to on the Boston Common,
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Aurora
,
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Australia, election law in,
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Avruch, Frank,
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Ayn Rand Institute,
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Bache, Benjamin Franklin,
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Baker, Charlie,
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Baker, Russell,
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“Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party” (Holmes),
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Barbary Coast nations,
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Barrett, Richard,
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Beaver
(replica),
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Beck, Glenn,
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“Indoctrination in America” lecture,
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See also
Founders’ Fridays
Becker, Carl,
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Bellamy, Edward,
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Bellamy, Francis,
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Bennett, Doug,
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Bicentennial, the,
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Thurgood Marshall’s view of,
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See also
American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
Peoples Bicentennial Committee
Bicentennial Ethnic Racial Forum,
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Bill of Rights,
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“Birthers,”
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Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street, The
(Revere),
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Boorstein, Daniel,
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Boston,
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boycott of British imports by Bostonians,
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celebration of the Bi
centennial in,
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material dumped into Boston Harbor over the years,
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response of to British troops stationed in,
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siege of,
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–3,
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See also
Boston Common; Patriot’s Day
“Boston” (Emerson),
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Boston Common,
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Boston Evening Post
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Boston Gazette
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last issue of,
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motto of,
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the Tories’ name for (“Weekly Dung Barge”),
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“The Boston Tea Party . . . and this Generation” editorial of,
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Boston Massacre,
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commemoration of,
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depositions concerning,
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John Adams’s opinion of,
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protest meetings of,
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Boston News-Letter
,
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Boston Phoenix
,
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Boston Port Act (1774),
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Boston Tea Party (1773),
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Boston Tea Party (2009),
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Anti-Obamacare rally,
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Boston Tea Party Ship. See
Beaver
Boy with a Squirrel
(Copley),
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Bozo the Clown,
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Bradstreet, Anne,
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Brewer, Jan,
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Brown, Scott,
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–10,
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Brown v. Board of Education
(1954),
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Bunker Hill,
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Bunker Hill, Battle of,
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monument of,
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reenactment of,
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Burdick, Benjamin,
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Burke, Edmund,
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Burns, Anthony,
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Bush, George H. W.,
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Caldwell, James,
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Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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bridge to,
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as the “Republic of Cambridge,”
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as Washington’s headquarters,
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Carmichael, Stokely,
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Carr, Howie,
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Christian nation.
See
United States, as a Christian nation
chronology,
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church/state separation,
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Civil Rights Act (1964),
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Civil War, the,
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Coakley, Martha,
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Coalition for Marriage and Family,
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Coburn, John,
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Colonial Times Today
,
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Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
(Nell),
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Common Sense
(Paine),
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–30,
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John Adams’s opinion of,
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profits from sale of donated to the Continental Army,
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–38
Common Sense II: The Case Against Corporate Tyranny
(Peoples Bicentennial Commission),
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Connecticut charter, the,
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Connecticut Courant
,
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Considerations on Slavery
(Appleton),
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Constitutional Convention (1787),
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Continental Congress: First (1774),
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Contract with America,
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Contrast, The
(R. Tyler),
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