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I: George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840). A Boston shoemaker and the memory of the American Revolution
A man in his nineties
A Boston childhood
The apprentice
The shoemaker
The massacre
The tea party
Tar and feathers
The patriot
Soldier and sailor
Family man
Veteran
Hero
II: When did they start calling it the Boston Tea Party? The contest for memory of the American Revolution
Taming the revolution, 1765-1775
The destruction of the tea, 1773
Taming the memory of the revolution, 1783-1820
Merchants, mill owners, and master mechanics
The discovery of the veterans, 1825
Claiming the revolution: the radical challenge, 1835
The recoverery of the tea party
The appropriation of a shoemaker
Into history: the ongoing contest for the revolution.

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