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This week, a look at colonial myths and monuments.

University of Delaware professor Zara Anna Houselan says that assumptions about colonial America are strongly influenced by popular culture, including paintings and statues.

So welcome.

This is History 318, the History of Colonial America, and I'm Professor Zara and is Hanslan.

Now, at the beginning of this course, I asked each of you to tell me what you think of when you think of colonial American history.

Many of you, I'm sure, don't even remember what you put, but I'm going to

give you a little synopsis today. Many of you focused on what historians would actually call

the American Revolutionary era rather than the colonial era at large. People like George Washington,

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, issues like taxation without representation,

other founders and historical

highlights of the imperial crisis in the war all popped up. A few of you also mentioned places

like historic Jamestown, Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts, and Colonial Williamsburg.

And a few people mentioned the history of slavery. And what I thought was really interesting was

that it was notably because of either or the 1619 project in the summer's Black Lives Matter protests.

But what was interesting was that there were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women, I think, or any individual indigenous people by name.

And no one, if I'm recalling correctly, mentioned anything west of the Appalachian Mountains,

much less west of the Mississippi or the Rockies or the West Coast.

Technically speaking, this course runs from before contact of Europeans with indigenous people in the 15th century to 1763, the end of the

seven years or French and Indian War, and what is now the territory called the United States

of America.

So obviously this covers hundreds of years, millions of lives, half of which were women,

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