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John Smith Map Credits:
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following institutions and individuals for the use of images from their collections:
The British Museum
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Library of Congress
London Maritime Museum
National Archives and Records Administration
New York Public Library
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
University of North Carolina Libraries
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Virginia Alderman Library
Virginia Historical Society
About the Scholar
Barbara Clark Smith is Curator of Social History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where she has worked since 1983. Her research ranges from the material culture of household life to forms of popular participation in the era of the American Revolution. Dr. Smith has curated exhibitions on such topics as household and community life in the early republic, costume and the construction of gender, and the history of housework. Her publications include After the Revolution: The Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century; "Food Rioters and the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly, (1994); and "Revolution in Boston," for the National Park Service handbook for the Freedom Trail.
About the Teacher
Stacy Hoeflich teaches fourth grade at John Adams Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has taught for the past eight years. Participant in numerous advanced educational training programs, including Teaching American History, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, and Adventure of the American Mind, she also sat on the committee to set the Virginia Standards of Learning for Virginia Studies and serves as fourth grade team leader at John Adams Elementary School. She received her B.A. in English and Masters of Education from The George Washington University.