Over the like this, years. In other words, as the colonies to along from jamestown 1776, more and more people, as passes, decide that they are able to handle this on their own. Need to be ruled from westminster, and eventually, of course, enough of them decide to declaration of independence. That graph would make the evolution pretty easy to understand. Just like you growing up. The last thing you want is for your parents to dump you out the door an run life. N by the time youre 12 you can see it might look pretty good an the time youre 18, here you are. If this graph is right then the going through st the normal process of maturing and a smart parent, of course, eye on things and as the child gets more competent and more confident, ease up on strings. Separation can come about reasonably nicely. Doesnt see whats happening and doesnt changing e the competence and confidence of the child, then there is likely to eventually maybe some kind of explosion. Graph would make the revolution pr
Going to be talking about the imperial problem that faces britain after the end of the war in 1763 and, of course, the coming of the revolution. So, if you have any questions, pipe up. If not, i will be asking you a few. You remember, last time or last week anyway we put a graph up here showing the results you would probably get if you went around and asked everybody in the colonies at 25year intervals, do you want to be independent of britain . If you remember, the graph shot up kind of like this, over the years. In other words, as the colonies move along from jamestown to 1776, more and more people, as time passes, decide that they are able to handle this on their own. They dont need to be ruled from westminster, and eventually, of coarse, enough of them decide that to produce a declaration of independence. That graph would make the revolution pretty easy to understand. Just like you growing up. When you are two, the last thing you want is for your parents to dump you out the door an
25year intervals, do you want to be independent of britain . And if you remember, the graph like nd of like this over the years. In other words, as the colonies move along from jamestown to this more and more people time decide that he are handle this on their own, they dont need to be ruled from westminister and eventually of course some of them decide to produce a declaration of independence. That graph would make the revolution pretty easy to understand, right . Its just like you growing up. When youre 2, the last thing you want is your parents to thump you out the door and say ok, now you got to run your own life. By the time youre 12, it might look pretty good. By the time youre 18, there you are. So if this grass is right, the colonies are going through the normal process of maturing and the smart parents, of course, will keep an eye on things and as the child gets more confident, ease up on the rings and in that case dedication can come about reasonably nicely. If the parents do
To study, although i wasnt planning on being a historian. I was originally going to go into the foreign service. Cspan can you remember when you first got interested in history, say, in high school, or even grade school . Guest no, because it was taught so poorly in high school i cant imagine why i would have been interested in it from the High School Teacher. He used to have us read from muzzey, the textbook. That was how we did history. Each would read a paragraph, and hed go up and down the row, and i would plan ahead when i would be reading, and then id go ahead and read on my own and keep my finger on the spot which i would have to read. But so it was not because of the teaching. It was just something i was interested in, despite the very bad High School Teacher we had. Cspan where did you grow up . Guest i grew up in new england, in Greater Boston lived in worcester for a while but graduated from waltham high school, which is a little town right outside of boston. Cspan and do yo
And the radicals. This was recorded in 2011 and its about an hour, 10 minutes. I would like to mention a couple of Upcoming Events before i introduce professor ferling. We continue a series next week, next wednesday, here at the Central Library that we started and much of our foundation is funded and this was a great idea. Kansas city cradle of interviewers. Over time we will be doing history of flowership. We are having conversations with ur snures. D next wednesday, john macdonald, the brewing pioneer, the finest beer in america, i hesitate to say that with sam you ell adams. But i will be interviewing john and how he created the greatest americas brewery. And terry macdonald, his sister is one of our employees and she has pictures and bail bond receipts. This is a historyloving audience. We have terry on august 11 talking about one of the most important battles of the civil war, our part of the country, battle of wilsons creek. Part of an ongoing series. Part of the the series that