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As Americans in the 1830s recalled, celebrated, and mythologized the nation's founding, children's textbooks and family magazines increasingly featured accounts of the Boston Massacre. Images of the event also began appearing the in copybooks that schoolchildren used to practice penmanship and work out math problems.
A new generation of Americans was learning Revolutionary War history. Paul Revere's print of the Massacre was one of the images they came to associate with the lead-up to war. |