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Society of Early Americanists Conference: Whose Documents? Our Documents
| Location: | Virginia, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2004-09-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2004-08-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
140542 |
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This panel considers the contents and the claims of the “Our Documents” website, “A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service” [see http://www.ourdocuments.gov/] within the context of Early American Studies. Critical readings of the documents might examine the site’s claim that they “reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to ‘form a more perfect union.’” How does this government site construct a language of political “union” from the multiple, nuanced meanings scholars and students derive from these early texts? How does the site represent these texts as foundational documents in projects of “civic engagement,” “service learning,” and/or “community partnership”? How might scholars and teachers of Early American Studies offer supplements, challenges, or reconfigurations of these projects and of the “Our Documents” site itself? Society of Early Americanists Conference, 31 March-2 April, 2005
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