Been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats called [ speaking Foreign Language ] anybody take french . This is april 1775, right after lexington and concord, through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase. And this is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . They havent really started fighting yet. They havent started fighting yet. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else, any ideas . Some of it, this is like fury. And i have some images to show you. Theres a historian named charles roister and he coined this phrase, rage militaire. And it says, the rage militaire has taken hold on the entire continent. The americans are fighting mad. Its a wild passion. What is rage . Go ahead. Anger. Intense anger. The americans are really furious. All this stuff has been building up
Today, were going to focus on the Continental Army. And this is were situating this very much in the broad history. Of war and the military. And the Continental Army, a lot of ways, is different from other armies that have preceded it, largely because its one thats very much based on ideals and certain concepts and beliefs rather than sort of your traditional army. So, what is the Continental Army, what is it . America. America, okay. Continental army based in america. It electrical but first United States army, but before it is the u. S. Army it is the army of america, yes. But what element . Certainly part of the American Revolution. The united colonies. Yeah, the united colonies. So when does the Continental Army begin . Its not necessarily with the start of the revolution. But we are going to pick up the story with the beginning of the war. So, a couple classes ago, we were talking about the french and indian war. And the french and indian war was a world war that fundamentally alt
We can make money for this. They are heading off to the local print shop to sell this lead to be melted down. They happened to run into a couple of legislators who were in town and they were showing off what they had found. They realized this is probably something important. It is just a simple. On one side it is stamped in latin describing who was going to bury it. It has a symbol on the front side. It is probably stamped in paris before it came to the united states. On the back side, though, it was carved with a knife with the names of the two brothers that were here and the date that they were over in fort peters. That is what is so exciting about this being able to hold this plate and know that these explorers placed it on the hill side over in fort pierre. The brothers provide us with the first known nonindian artifact to be found in south dakota. What we found in the early 1700s was that the people were largely living along the Missouri River in what is now south dakota. About th
Democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing things a little differently today because of cspan being here which means i will say a little more about what the Kinder Institute is so for the tv audience. Founded in 2014 the Kinder Institute is a joint project with the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholars across campus. It is dedicated to research, teaching and Community Engagement on the subject of american political thought and history seen in broad context and from a wide variety of perspectives. Created by a gift from rich and nancy kinder. We are grateful they made the bold choice of humanities and social sciences at the university of missouri as one of their philanthropies. Our hope is to teach and learn about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspire the founders as well as those they disagreed with and over. We want to unders
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