HIST 116: The American Revolution
Lecture 01 - Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution. Professor Freeman offers an introduction to the course, summarizing the readings and discussing the course's main goals. She also offers five tips for studying the Revolution: 1) Avoid thinking about the Revolution as a story about facts and dates; 2) Remember that words we take for granted today, like "democracy," had very different meanings; 3) Think of the "Founders" as real people rather than mythic historic figures; 4) Remember that the "Founders" aren't the only people who count in the Revolution; 5) Remember the importance of historical contingency: that anything could have happened during the Revolution. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 01 - Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction: Is the War Part of the American Revolution? |
| [00:08:24] | 2. Reading Materials for the Course |
| [00:13:45] | 3. Freeman's Tips One and Two: Facts and Meanings |
| [00:22:13] | 4. Freeman's Tip Three: The Founders Were Human, Too |
| [00:31:33] | 5. Freeman's Tip Four: The Other Revolutionaries |
| [00:37:48] | 6. Freeman's Tip Five and Conclusion |
| References |
| Lecture 1 - Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution Instructor: Professor Joanne Freeman. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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