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Explore ways to get involved in local history to commemorate America 250

Discuss the history of voluntary civic participation in the U.S.

Discuss the history of voluntary civic participation in the U.S.

Learn how historic memory is being contested as the U.S. approaches 250 years

Learn more why Ellis describes slavery and the treatment of Native Americans as great contradictions in American history

Discuss how Washington might think of the state of democracy in the U.S. today

Discuss some of the struggles for freedom and equality that are still ongoing in one of the cradles of American democracy

How has the first president's vision for the country been shaped by the centuries?