The “Inventing a Nation” series premiered on October 18 to a full house in Decker Theatre. A lively Q & A session followed the talk, which focused on the myth of the “original meaning” of the Constitution. The conversation will continue Tuesday, October 25 with the second installment in the series, “The Creation of the Bill of Rights.”
This special four-part series on America’s founding era takes audiences behind the scenes of the debates that produced our political system, providing new context for understanding questions that continue to divide Americans today. In the October 25 program, Dr. Beeman will delve into the reasons that the U.S. Constitution did not originally contain a bill of rights and the process by which Americans moved to add one. The talk will conclude with reflections on the meaning of the Bill of Rights today.
Richard Beeman is one of the nation’s leading historians of America’s revolutionary and early national experience. He has recently joined the Washington College community as a Senior Fellow of the C.V. Starr Center, as well as the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture.
Hosted by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, “Inventing a Nation: A Special Series on the American Founding” will run for four consecutive Tuesdays: October 18, October 25, November 1, and November 8. All sessions will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Decker Theatre, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts, on the Washington College campus.
“Inventing a Nation” is co-sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of History. All programs in the series are free and open to the public.
WHAT: Inventing a Nation, Part II, “The Creation of the Bill of Rights”
WHEN: October 25, 2011; 7:30 pm
WHERE: Decker Theatre, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College
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