Partnership Programs: American Revolution Native American Series Southeast Asian Tour STEMTEC Teachers as Scholars Witness for Freedom American Revolution: Resources {Books, lesson plans, links, videos, and more} Evaluations {Read what the participants have to say about each session.} "To Form a More Perfect Union" (PDF) Read the article printed in Five College Ink magazine about the series (PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 to view. Download free program)   Theme: Equality: Americans' Ambivalent and Reluctant Ideal Faculty: Marla Miller, University of Massachusetts Following the discussion of citizenship-i.e., the relationship between individuals and the state-the session on equality will examine relationships between and among residents of the newly formed nation. How has equality been defined? How has it been contested? Participants will discuss how their assigned Revolutionary characters experienced equality in the Early Republic. (Reading list July 8, 2002) Boulton, Alexander O., "The American Paradox: Jeffersonian Equality and Racial Science", American Quarterly, V 47, I 3 September 1995, pp. 467-492. Katz, Stanley N., "The Strange Birth and Unlikely History of Constitutional Equality" Journal of American History, V 75, I 3 December 1988, pp. 747-762. Young, Alfred F., "George Robert Twelve Hewes (1742-1840)" The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999), pp. 3-6