Enjoy this free course from Simon’s Rock – American Revolutions: The Nation’s Unfinished Promise. These lectures are held each Monday night from January 27 to May 5 (except March 17, during spring break), at the Lecture Center, from 6-7:30 pm, with time for questions and answers and discussion beginning around 7:oo pm. The lecture schedule is as follows:

02/03: The Sheffield Resolves, or How Americans’ Declarations Made the Revolution Seem Like a Polite and Orderly Philosophical Discussion.
02/10: The Great Barrington Court Closures, or, How the Revolution Was Definitely Not a Tea Party.
02/17: The Revolution in Native America, or, How Stockbridge’s Mohicans Won the War and Lost Their Land.
02/24: The Progress of Agrippa Hull, or, How African American Patriots Made ‘Glory’ Possible after the Revolution.
03/03: Revolutionary Memory as Military History, or, How Monuments to Famous Generals and Battles Forgot the Common Soldier and the Virtues of Peace.
03/10: When the People Were Sovereign, or, How Berkshire County Radicals Insisted on a Constitutional Revolution against Empire.
03/24: One Minute’s Freedom, or, How Mumbet Made Massachusetts Free and Exposed the Violence of Domesticity.
03/31: The Agrarian Roots of the U.S. Constitution, or How Rebellious Farmers Inspired a Wealthy Minority to Suppress the Democratic Majority.
04/07: From Home Rule and Social Movement to Forced Founders and Civil War, or, How Historians Have Changed Their Narratives of the Revolution, and Why.
04/14: Shots Heard Around the World, or, How Americans’ Fight for Liberty and Equality Continues to Inspire Revolution across the Globe.
04/21: Making the Revolution Safe for Habitation, or, How Historic Preservation Obscured America’s Unruly Origins.
04/28: The Art of Revolution, or, How Memory of the Independence Struggle Entered American Culture through Literature, Poetry, Art, and Music.
05/05: Gen. Henry Knox, the Noble Train of History, and How the Revolutionary Settlement Expanded the Frontiers of Empire and Nation.