耶鲁：Professor Freeman 关于American Revolution历史学习的 five tips

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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 ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTBSGoYtK0&list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB

在油管右侧，有整个课程的内容。