c-span. next, grace college professor jared burkholder talks about the differences between pacifist groups during the american revolution. this class is about an hour. well, good afternoon. it s nice of you all to come to class today on this cold day. but as i ve mentioned in a previous class, our topic for today is religious pacifists and the american revolution. so often we think about the american revolution we think about military action so perhaps a topic on pacifists or those who refuse to take military action is an interesting angle. but let me begin by telling you about an incident that took place in april of 1778. this is the spring just after valley forge. 12 members of the moravian church were arrested by a local county official. they were brought to easton which was the county seat in north hampton county in pennsylvania. they were paraded through the streets, tied together with ropes around their next like common criminals. we might be wondering what was thei
interesting angle. but, let me begin by telling you about an incident that took place in april of 1778. this is the spring just after valley forge. 12 members of the church were arrested by local county official, they were brought to eaten which was the county seat in northampton county, in pennsylvania. they were paraded through the streets, tied together with ropes around their next like common criminals. we might be wondering what was their crime. essentially their crime was the fact that their religious conviction prohibited them from joining the cause of independence and from pledging their loyalty to the new state of pennsylvania that would be informed. these are not officials that are forcing the parliamentary acts that they were upset about these were simply members of the small religious sex that really were not very friendly at all. so the experience, attests to the fact that support for the revolution was anything but uniform. we have mentioned this before in this
take military action is an interesting angle. but, let me begin by telling you about an incident that took place in april of 1778. this is the spring just after valley forge. 12 members of the church were arrested by local county official, they were brought to easton which was the county seat in northampton county, in pennsylvania. they were paraded through the streets, tied together with ropes around their necks like common criminals. we might be wondering what was their crime. essentially their crime was the fact that their religious convictions prohibited them from joining the cause of independence and from pledging their loyalty to the new state of pennsylvania that would be informed. these are not officials that are forcing the parliamentary acts that they were upset about these were simply members of the small religious sect that really were not very friendly at all. so, the experience, attests to the fact that support for the revolution was anything but uniform. we hav
this is the spring just after valley forge. 12 members where arrested by local county official, they were brought to eaten which was the county seat in northampton county, in pennsylvania. they were paraded through the streets, tied together with ropes around their next like common criminals. we might be wondering what was their crime. essentially their crime was the fact that their religious conviction prohibited them from joining the cause of independence and from pledging their loyalty to the new state of pennsylvania that would be informed. these are not officials that are forcing the parliamentary acts that they were upset about these were simply members of the small religious sex that really religious sect that really were not very friendly at all. so, the experience, attests to the fact that support for the revolution was anything but uniform. we have mentioned this before in this class in other contexts. it was not uniform and there were lots of different and div
of 19 46nce in july and they needed a military advisor to create the philippine military. douglas macarthur at this point brings an impressive resume to that task. decoratedmost highly american officer in the first world war. he had been superintendent at west point. he had been one of the outstanding graduate from there. was known in the philippines perry had served there many times i had a lot of friends including in the current philippine government. had been chief of staff from 1930 until 1935 and after that, except for the post accepted the post of military advisor. he moved out there taking his ailing mother with him and they booked passage on the liner hoover. macarthur, being a major general in the army, having reverted to that rank, was seated at the captains table. that is what this program here is from. from october 1935 on their way across the pacific. while there, he meets a vivacious tennessee woman. jean faircloth. on the first leg of an asian tour with frien