Hey, I’m guest no. 1. How great is that! Thank you, Patrick.
Patrick, if you don’t know, is as great a guy as he is brilliant. Please check out his website: http://www.patrickcoffin.media
You can also find him on twitter: @Patrick_Coffin
A look at America’s first great awakening as well as the rise of the enlightenment(s).
William Penn, governor, legend, brand marketer.
Behold! Attempts at religious freedom in two colonies. Full lecture.
Comments more than welcome.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Brief Abraham Lincoln Timeline (1809-1858)
February 12, 1809: Lincoln born in Kentucky. (Born the same year as Karl Marx)
1816: The Lincolns moved to Indiana.
1818: Lincoln’s mother died.
So, several lectures posted. . . blog getting a little too heavy. Therefore, time for a bit of Batman. Here are some incredible pieces I found at Mondo (thanks to Adam Martin for letting me know about Mondo).
The best book on American population.
Why and how (not biology 1o1!) American English colonials had lots and lots and lots and lots of kids. And, why having kids matters.
From National Geographic.
American Heritage lecture–the New England Way. Why the Puritans matter.
Hello friends out there in the cyberworld, if you’re interested, here’s my introductory lecture to my semester-long, upper-level course, SECTIONALISM AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
In this lecture, I go over the syllabus and books as well as discuss the five ways in which the Civil War changed America and the three primary reasons the war occurred.
Class mechanics and a look at the five migrations to English North America.
The true flag of the American Revolution.
American Heritage
H105; Spring 2017; Lane 125
MWF, 10:00-10:50, 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Dr. Bradley J. Birzer
Required Readings
A close friend do of mine asked me how to explain the connection between Catholicism and philosophical anarchism (as in Tolkien’s beliefs). Here’s my response, for what it’s worth.
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First, I try not to use the word anarchist in polite company—ONLY because for most folks, it conjures images of a bomb-thrower with a scruffy beard and top hat. That said, I don’t really have a better term. I do have the scruffy beard, though.
The flag of the 24th Michigan, the last regiment to join the Iron Brigade. Made up of men from Hillsdale College and Hillsdale County.
Sectionalism and American Civil War, H303
Instructor: Brad Birzer (bbirzer@hillsdale.edu)
Spring 2017. T/Th: 9:30-10:45; Lane 333
Office hours (tentative and subject to change, especially depending on the week):
T/TH: 11-1; Wed: 12-1. And, by appointment.
Course Content
This course examines America’s movement toward secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, covering the years from roughly 1848 to 1877 with very brief excursions back to 1776, 1787, 1798, 1820, and 1833. We will especially focus on the reasons for the Civil War (not surprisingly, they are varied and complex, though the issue of slavery and competing nationalist and republican visions explain many, many things), the reasons why soldiers fought, and the aftermath of the war. We will meet heroes and villains (especially two killers with the first name of John), the Yankee Leviathan, the Yankee garden, nationalists, the C.S.A. socialist war state, the harassment committees, ignorance, bad intentions, the poets, the ministers, the priests, good intentions, idiocy, the machine, brilliance, cruelty, Christianity (in all its wondrous manifestations–Protestantism and Catholicism (sorry, no Eastern Orthodox in the war that I know of–though there were a few Greeks fighting, so probably some)), Siamese elephant troops, New Yorkers, Californians, Texans, South Carolinians, the reluctant, the beautiful, the too willing, the political theorists, the philosophers, the journalists, the ideologues and terrorists, the republicans (everywhere–North and South), the egalitarians, the enslavers, Barnburners, Fire-eaters, the weak, the dispossessed, Crackers, the strong, the brave, the liberated, the preyed upon, and the righteous.
Stormfields 