Congress Hall
Matthew Ifill talked about Congress Hall, located next to Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. The U.S. Congress met in the building from 1790 to 1800 and Presidents George Washington and John …
1,045 viewsMatthew Ifill talked about Congress Hall, located next to Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. The U.S. Congress met in the building from 1790 to 1800 and Presidents George Washington and John …
1,045 viewsProfessors Patrick Deneen and Vincent Phillip Muñoz of the University of Notre Dame discussed competing understandings of the American founding and how divided opinions on liberty continue t…
219 viewsThe American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., hosted a discussion commemorating the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s 1776 Declaration of Independence. This conversation was d…
137 viewsAuthor Cynthia Kierner discussed the life of Jane Spurgin during the Revolutionary War, including how her support for Continental forces divided her family, resulting in a public struggle fo…
140 viewsWashington Examiner political analyst Michael Barone discussed how the geographical orientation and partialities of six Founding Fathers influenced the creation and development of the United…
183 viewsHistorians discussed the founders of the United States. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Virginia.
332 viewsAuthor Jordan Taylor discussed how foreign news affected American politics in colonial America, plaguing the Revolution with misunderstandings. The American Revolution Institute in Washingto…
292 viewsYale University professor Ned Blackhawk, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, talked about the role of native people across five centuries of American history - from Spanish colonial expl…
527 viewsIthaca College professor Michael Trotti discussed the escalating tensions between colonists and the British government before the American Revolution. Ithaca College is located in New York.
854 viewsWashington Examiner senior political analyst Michael Barone talked about his book, Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders. This progra…
717 viewsIn part four of Books that Shaped America, historian, author, and Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford explored the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the first autobiog…
1,392 viewsIn part three of Books That Shaped America, Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs explored the Journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, which were published in 1814 and recorded the 1804-1806 exped…
1,506 viewsIn part one of Books That Shaped America, University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell explored Common Sense, a 1776 pamphlet authored by Thomas Paine that urged the American coloni…
1,951 viewsIn 1619, 35 English settlers arrived in Berkeley, Virginia, upriver from Jamestown. We talked to Graham Woodlief, descendant of the group’s leader, Captain John Woodlief, about how these col…
1,137 viewsAuthor Peter Cozzens talked about the 1813 Creek War, Andrew Jackson’s role in this conflict and the subsequent removal of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears. The Army and Navy Club in W…
218 viewsMartin DiCaro, host of the Washington Times' “History As It Happens” podcast, talked to historian David Silverman about challenges educators face when teaching about colonialism and the firs…
408 viewsFinalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of Ame…
102 viewsLibrary of Congress Curator Mark Manivong showed James Madison’s copy of the Bill of Rights.
25 viewsBrigham Young University Professor Jay Buckley taught a class about Lewis and Clark’s expedition across the American West after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Also known as the Corps of Dis…
2,318 viewsHistorian Richard Bell talked about Thomas Paine’s popularity in 1776 after publishing Common Sense and his reputational decline after the American Revolution. This virtual program was hoste…
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