Lectures tagged "Founding Fathers"

Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773 (Part 1)
Benjamin Carp
December 3, 2009
00:47:32
The Boston Tea Party was about more than taxes, and it was part of a movement that was larger than Boston.
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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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David McCullough's Biography of a Year: 1776
David McCullough
June 1, 2005
01:14:17
Best-selling historical writer and two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough follows up his biography John Adams by focusing on a historic time rather than an individual: the momentous 12 month