Hello, everyone. Welcome to Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it happens podcast. Were doing a series of episodes about, the declaration of independence. Why the declaration of independence . Well, the subject may be old, but the issues are fresh. The American Revolution is current events. I actually got that line from our guest today. Hello, Denver Brunsman historian at George Washington university. Welcome to the Washington Times. Thanks, martin. Its to be here. Yeah, i dont think i could get a better guest because youre the guy who teaches the classes about George Washington at the university named after him and teach them at mount vernon to tell us a little bit of the work you do. Yes, im incredibly lucky im a professor and the chair of the History Department at George Washington university. So i get to teach a range of classes on early american history, including the revolution, war of 1812. And the one you mentioned, my favorite, George Washington and his w
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it happens podcast. Were doing a series of episodes about, the declaration of independence. Why the declaration of independence . Well, the subject may be old, but the issues are fresh. The American Revolution is current events. I actually got that line from our guest today. Hello, Denver Brunsman historian at George Washington university. Welcome to the Washington Times. Thanks, martin. Its to be here. Yeah, i dont think i could get a better guest because youre the guy who teaches the classes about George Washington at the university named after him and teach them at mount vernon to tell us a little bit of the work you do. Yes, im incredibly lucky im a professor and the chair of the History Department at George Washington university. So i get to teach a range of classes on early american history, including the revolution, war of 1812. And the one you mentioned, my favorite, George Washington and his w
Cspan. Org history. A healthy democracy does not look just like this, it looks like this. Americans can see democracy at work. Get informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are, to get the opinion that matters the most, is your own, this is what democracy looks like. About, thf welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history as it happens podcast. We are doing a special series of episodes about the declaration of independence. Why the declaration of independence again . The subject may be old, the issues are fresh. The American Revolution its current events. I got that line from our guest today. Hello denver bronfman historian from George Washington university. Thank you for being here. Thank you for asking me. You are the guy who teaches classes at George Washington at the university named after him and you teach at mount vernon as well. Tell us more. Im the professor and chair at the Hi
To a creator, a supreme judge, or Divine Providence. He also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. It was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. 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
Republicanism. Roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. Enlightened liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things and i mentioned protestant christianity of the third of the headwaters i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism, and we defer that to today. 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 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 christianity. Thats where we are, looking at protestant christianity. This is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awakening of the s