Revolutionary College Project: A Digital Archive Documenting The History Of Washington College

Washingon College inwards Chestertown, MD maintains an extensive digital archive of materials on the institution's history known every bit The Revolutionary College Project.  The endeavour to document as well as portion information traces dorsum over a decade as well as reflects the operate of students, alumni, staff, as well as faculty.  

The projection was named to reverberate the "...fact that Washington College was the exclusively American establishment chartered during the Revolutionary War; it was established literally patch the Continental Army, nether George Washington, was all the same inwards the champaign fighting for the nation's independence. And its founders harbored revolutionary ideas virtually education, which they - different most 18th-century educators - believed must laid students to serve their communities, nation, as well as world. "The souls of our youth," William Smith wrote, "must endure nursed upward to the honey of LIBERTY as well as KNOWLEDGE..."

The archive is divided into separate sections that focus on the founding of the institution, student life, connections to USA presidents, alumni, the successful struggle for integration, the history of the Chesapeake as well as Maryland's Eastern Shore where Washington College is located, as well as diverse curiosities.

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