Lectures tagged "American Revolution"

Stimulating Beverages: Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate in Early America
Amanda Lange
January 7, 2010
00:42:39
Amanda Lange, curator at Historic Deerfield, explains how tea, coffee, and chocolate--originally prescribed as cures for ailments ranging from headaches and depressions--became counted among the necessities of daily life.
Empire of Liberty: History of the Early Republic
Gordon S. Wood
November 19, 2009
00:53:05
Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the United States' early days under the Constitution and his new book Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815.
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Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
Alan R. Hoffman
May 14, 2009
00:53:18
Translator Alan Hoffman discusses Auguste Levasseur's book Lafayette in America, which recounts how the 67-year-old hero of the American Revolution and apostle of liberty in Europe was welcom
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Loyalists and the American War for Independence
Brendan McConville
January 29, 2009
00:43:22
Winners typically write the history books, but what about those who were less fortunate?
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Gossiping about the Gores
J.L. Bell
January 22, 2009
00:44:18
Capt. John Gore was a decorative painter who rose into the ranks of Boston gentlemen. But in the 1770s, what was the proper path for him and his children: political resistance or loyalty to Britain?
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In His Own Words: Justice Peter Oliver
Michael Lepage
January 8, 2009
00:44:33
As part of the Old South Meeting House's "Loyalty to the Crown" series, Michael Lepage performs as the Chief Justice and expresses his views on the people and events that started the American Revoluti
Lawrence Hill: Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill
August 29, 2008
00:36:29
Lawrence Hill talks about his new book, Someone Knows My Name at The Writers Institute of Georgia Perimeter College.
Joshua Glover: Freeing the Fugitive Slave Act
H. Robert Baker
February 7, 2007
00:51:51
H. Robert Baker articulates the many ways in which the case of fugitive slave Joshua Glover evoked powerful emotions in America in the years leading up to the Civil War.