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Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a Colonial patriotic society in the United States, open to women having one or more ancestors who aided the cause of the Revolution. The society was organized (1890) at Washington, D.C., and has its national headquarters at Memorial Continental Hall there. The society has done much for the preservation and marking of historic places. In politics, the DAR has been criticized for its conservative policies. There is a similar but unrelated organization known as the Daughters of the Revolution.

Bibliography: See studies by M. Strayer (1958, repr. 1973) and P. Anderson (1974).

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Daughters of the American Revolution DAR a patriotic society in the United States, founded in 1890 with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is active in the preservation and marking of historic places, and membership is open to women with one or more ancestors who were active in the Revolutionary War.

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Daughters of the American Revolution in the US, a patriotic society whose aims include encouraging education and the study of US history and which tends to be politically conservative. Membership is limited to female descendants of those who aided the cause of independence. It was first organized in 1890.

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