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076 Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution

Published: April 5, 2016, 5 a.m.

What did it mean to be a citizen during the late-18th and early-19th centuries?

Why and how did early American sailors seem intent on proving their citizenship to the United States?

In this episode, we explore citizenship and maritime life during the Age of Revolutions with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, an Assistant Professor of History and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California and author of Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in\xa0the Age of Revolution.

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