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The American Revolution Was More Radical Than the Founders Wanted

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By Ed Simon
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A popular anecdote maintains that, upon their defeat at Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British fife-and-drum regiment was instructed by General George Washington to perform the Royalist anthem “The World Turned Upside Down.” As appealing as the story is, it’s almost certainly apocryphal. Traditionally, the losing army would have played a melody associated with the winning side, in this case either an American or French tune.
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The Hudson River School’s American Apocalypse

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By Ed Simon
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Opinion — 10 min read Frederic Edwin Church, “Our Banner in the Sky” (1861), oil on paper (photo public domain CC0 via Wikimedia Commons) By the standards of geological epochs, Kaaterskill Falls in Upstate New York is positively youthful.
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Conjuring the Future Phrase by Phrase

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By Ed Simon, Joshua Bennett
| Essential American Poets
If America’s tale is best told through the pastoral—through seeds carried westward on winds not of their own choosing—then it must be acknowledged that this nation is no Arcadia of uncomplicated leisure and repose. Antebellum plantations had no role for the shepherd and shepherdess Strephon and Celia. Their ploughing was consensual; in America it was compelled.
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