#  MHS: Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 8, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EST 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

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 **Shira Lurie**, University of Virginia

 This project examines conflicts over liberty poles in the 1790s. Liberty poles offered grassroots partisans a tangible symbol through which to channel debates about political participation, popular sovereignty, and dissent under the new Constitution.



 

 



 

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