Brigadier General Curls Award Ceremony

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The American Revolution (HIST 116) • • 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. • • 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Is the War Part of the American Revolution? • 08:24 - Chapter 2. Reading Materials for the Course • 13:45 - Chapter 3. Freeman's Tips One and Two: Facts and Meanings • 22:13 - Chapter 4. Freeman's Tip Three: The Founders Were Human, Too • 31:33 - Chapter 5. Freeman's Tip Four: The Other Revolutionaries • 37:48 - Chapter 6. Freeman's Tip Five and Conclusion • • Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses • • This course was recorded in Spring 2010.

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