Cspan2. Tonight beginning at 8 00 eastern booktv features several programs with the late author and columnist William F Buckley junior. And joy booktv on cspan2. I am the director of programs and partnerships for the massachusetts political society. Our program is a look at tradition summaries. We are joined by professor Donna Harrington who will speak about books for 19thcentury publishing. She is a professor of English Communications in new rhode island, she has a degree from marymacs college and a phd from the university of illinois. As a former magazine writer and editor her Research Interests include 19thcentury culture, womens magazines and the radical alternative press. Before we begin i would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who will be joining us for the first time. If you are not familiar with the massachusetts Historical Society, we are the first Historical Society collecting and publishing and sharing our histories in 1791. An amazing collection of 14 million page
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 peoples 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 thats going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfi
Served as secretary of state and then campaigned for the presidency herself. American history tvs first lady series is also available as a podcast. You can find it whereve good mo. 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 peoples 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
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 peoples 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 thats going to contribute to individual fulfillment as well as the common good and that both of those goals were intertwined the fulfi
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 thats 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 were not going to talk about today is the confederation because that was a sideshow. That was the National Government was not of interest to these contemporaries. They put a very little you know philosophy Political Science and consideration into its construction in many ways. They just took the existing congress they had and and you know gave it some some rights and powers, but all the kind of philosophical ideas all the ho