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
Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
Proclaims this has it all, love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to describe the life story of richard st. George, the exhibitions starring figure, a wealthy irishman who finds himself on the wrong side of two revolutions in america and ireland, as part dickens with a spritz of yankee doodle. There is no doubt that richard st. Georges story is a cracking good tale, but the story reveals so much more than love my death, and psychodrama. In st. George, we see the complex entanglements of social, cultural, political identities of the time and the connectedness of the American Revolution. In st. George, we find a story of the age of revolution and a story of today, of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But in st. George, we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two relatively obscure paintings, and a mystery that ended with this deal for and moving exhibition featuring 22 works of art depicting or comm
Okay, everybody. Last class we were talking about outbreak of the American Revolution. We say all this. Tension is building in the spring of 1775 in april, general thomas gage sends troops into the country side, fighting breaks out at lexington and concord. As night falls about 20,000 americans descend on boston, lay siege to the city in this war nobody wants, been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats call anybody take french . Am i pronouncing it right . Probably. Okay. Close enough. This is april 1775, so right after lexington and concord through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase, okay . 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 . Go ahead, isabel . They havent really started fighting it. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else . Any ideas . Okay. This i
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