Event Locator: 2024-AAJPHX
This is a showing and discussion of one of The Great Courses on DVD.
When we think of the American Revolution, we tend to pay attention to the iconic names who articulated the vision of the new nation and became its standard bearers and leading lights. But it’s easy to forget that the American Revolution was an insurgent movement requiring mass communication, mass mobilization, and a single-mindedness of purpose on the part of a huge number of colonists acting together, joined by a common cause. Who were these people? How did they think and act to bring about a new form of society and government? Perhaps most significantly, how did they view themselves and the stake they had in this most daring of social and political experiments? You’ll meet the soldiers, midwives, artisans, shopkeepers, farmers, enslaved people, and all the other men and women—European-American, Native American, and African American—with whom the success or failure of the American Revolution depended.