Dr. Peter Messer will open the traveling exhibit\u00a0Becoming the US: Colonial America to Reconstruction\u00a0with his talk\u00a0Fashioning a Revolution: How Americans Bought, Fought, and Taught Their New Nation into Being\u00a0on Tuesday, March 31 at 5:30pm at the downtown branch of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System.\u200b
\n\u200bDr. Messer is a historian of Early American politics and culture at Mississippi State University. His interest lies in the theory and practice of politics in eighteenth-century America, particularly the intersection of natural historical thought and nation building in the era of the Early American Republic. In 2005, he published\u00a0Stories of Independence: Identity, Ideology, and History in Eighteenth-Century America.\u200b
\n\u200bHe is currently working on a book manuscript:\u00a0Adultery, Church Pews, Oysters, and Tea: The Very Local Origins of the American Revolution in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
\n\u200bThis program is sponsored by a Mississippi Humanities Council America250 Grant.
\nFor more information, call the CLPLS at 662-329-5300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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