Patriotic Movie: "The Patriot" (2000) (R) January 6, 2009

Mel Gibson plays reluctant hero Benjamin Martin, who is swept into the American Revolution when the war reaches his home and threatens his family. The film will be followed by a brief discussion of fact versus fiction.

“Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America” is a national traveling exhibition organized by the New-York Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the American Library Association. The traveling exhibition has been made possible in part through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, dedicated to expanding American understanding of human experience and cultural heritage.
The traveling exhibition is based on the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hamilton’s death as well as the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Society in 1804.

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