And its influence on the American Revolution. Well start with jeffrey mod3;ajaaz the James Madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smart looking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. And you recall from our last session together i laid out what i think are some head waters of early american constitutionalism. We looked at classical republicanism, primarily grecoroman. We looked at enlightenment imperialism. Then i mentioned protestant christianity. And we deferred that to today. Thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its head waters. Great rivers, mainstreams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by lewis and clark. And in a graphic way i just tried simply to illustrate those three headwaters. Classical republicanism to the left there. Enlightenment liberalism. And protestant chr
Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by
Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by
Im president and ceo of the labor history center. Welcome to tonight living stone lecture. Before we get started i want you may have noticed a few cameras in the room. Please turn off all of your devices and also, if youre to ask a question at question time, everyone has to come to the microphone or theyll cut the entire session. Please do that if youre interested in answering questions. Were very excited about tonight s program. Its a pleasure to welcome tonight featuring journalist frances fitzgerald. This was made possible by the limousine foundation. Born in new york city and graduating from Radcliffe College she came of age as a journalist in the vietnam war era. In 1972 he published fire in the lake, the vietnamese and americans in vietnam. A history of vietnam and the United States military involvement in the country. The book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, bancroft prize and a National Book award. She has since offered numeral critical works on American History and have appeared
Devices and also if youre going to ask a question, everybody has to come to a microphone or theyll cut the entire session. Please do that if youre interested in asking a question. Were very excited about science program. Its a pleasure to welcome tonights journalist and author francis ms. Gerald. Its made possible from the generation of the livingston foundation. Born in new york city and graduating from radcliffe college, she came of age as a journalist in the vietnam war era. In 1979 she published far in the lake, the vietnamese and american in vietnam. The history of vietnam in the United States military involvement in the country. The book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a bancroft prize and a National Book award. She has since authored numerous critically acclaimed works of American History and works of the puritan publications in the new yorker, and rolling stone. Tonight fitzgerald will discuss her recent book the evangelials the struggle to shake america. She traces the history o