Professor Ed Larson Presents “What a Difference a Year Makes: Washington, Franklin and the Epic Transition from 1775 to 1776" -- Southern Adventist University

Professor Edward J. Larson presented  “What a Difference a Year Makes: Washington, Franklin and the Epic Transition from 1775 to 1776" for Southern Adventist University's fourth annual Benjamin McArthur Lecture Series on April 8. 

From Southen Adventist University:

Edward Larson is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in History with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a law degree from Harvard. Larson is the University Professor of History and holds the Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. The author of fifteen books and over a hundred articles, he taught at the University of Georgia for twenty years and chaired its History Department. His books range from bestsellers on revolutionary America to his prizewinning history of the 1925 Scopes Trial, Summer for the Gods. His latest book is Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters.

Marking the republic's 250th anniversary, Larson's lecture looks at the historic events of 1775 and 1776 as a decade-long colonial struggle for the birthrights of English subjects under the king transformed into the birth pains of a globally significant revolution for liberty and equality under law and republican rule. The sun never shined on a cause of great worth, with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin standing in the center of this epic transition. Their actions and those of the others in assembly halls and on the battlefield mattered. Nothing about the American Revolution was inevitable.

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