Innovative course award on the topic of ordinary lives in the American Revolution. And his book stolen, which tells the true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the north and smuggled into slavery in the deep south is being published in october. So thank you once again for joining us this evening. And without any further ado, please join me in welcoming dr. Rick bell. All right, folks, thanks to heather and cspan for covering this. Those of you might have heard me give other programs wont be surprised to hear my strange accept which is not exactly a maryland natives accent. I born and raised in england yet find myself teaching about American Revolution, which is a blessing and a curse in an under graduate classroom to teach with an accent like this. Im very proud where i grew up. I often carry in my back pocket on occasions like this a giant british flag, which i might drape around the scenery for cspan to drink in. But i was also naturalized as a u. S. Citizen a couple of year
Story about five boys kidnapped in the north and smuggled into slavery in the south. Toir daring attempt to try bring their captors to justice is being published by Simon Schuster in october. Thank you once again for joining us this evening and please welcome me in joining dr. Rick bell. [applause] bell thanks to heather, thanks to cspan for covering this. Those of you who might have been to the smithsonian before wont be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland natives accent. I was born and raised in england , yet find myself teaching about the American Revolution as part of my job, which is a blessing and a curse in an undergraduate classroom, to teach with an accent like this. I am very proud of where i grew up. I often carry in my back pocket a giant british flag [laughter] dr. Bell which i might drape around the scenery for cspan to drink in. But i was also naturalized as a u. S. Citizen a couple of years ago, something i am incredibly proud of, so it
american revolution. hope all of you had a great spring break last weekend and look forward to hearing a little bit more about. what you did? in our upcoming discussions now we spent the last two weeks talking about the war of independence the actual war. and the amazing thing about the revolution is that while war was raging american drove constitutions and debated how to construct a government that would protect the people s rights and in facilitate their happiness. i mean this word happiness is not just appear in the declaration of independence. it appears over and over and over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government that s going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfillment and happin
welcome to history 3011 the american revolution. hope all of you had a great spring break last weekend and look forward to hearing a little bit more about. what you did? in our upcoming discussions now we spent the last two weeks talking about the war of independence the actual war. and the amazing thing about the revolution is that while war was raging american drove constitutions and debated how to construct a government that would protect the people s rights and in facilitate their happiness. i mean this word happiness is not just appear in the declaration of independence. it appears over and over and over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government that s going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwine
revolution is that while war was raging american drove constitutions and debated how to construct a government that would protect the people s rights and in facilitate their happiness. i mean this word happiness is not just appear in the declaration of independence. it appears over and over and over again in the discussions around the formation of state constitutions and in the earliest bills of rights, so, you know, i think we need to think about how emotion and sentiment are part of the goals of the revolution of really creating a government that s going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfillment and happiness of the individual that we could all be our best selves but also the good of the whole are the twin goals of this period of about creation of the republic now what we re not going to talk about today is the confederation because that was a sideshow. that was the national government wa