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Category: Revolution and the New Nation (1764-1815)

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Prompting Student Curiosity About George Washington’s Decision to Participate in the Constitutional Convention

Posted by: Danna Bell

This post is by Lee Ann Potter, the director of the Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives office at the Library of Congress. In the September 2022 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article shared a spring 1787 exchange between George Washington and Henry Knox …