The ancient Greek and Roman worlds deeply shaped the thinking of America’s founders. In this course, you’ll explore the ethos of classicism that permeated the founders’ era and how the revolutionaries identified with the ancient Roman republic. You’ll dig deeply into the classical thought of five of the iconic founders, and you’ll learn how the Founding Fathers created a radically new political model based in the conception of equality.
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Take a sweeping look at the people and ideas that built the United States of America. First, with America’s Founding Fathers, meet the people that helped establish a new nation. Then, in What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity, see how the leaders of this new republic reshaped the ideas of the past to lay the foundations for the future.
Witness the dawn of the United States of America from the perspective of both everyday Americans and Founding Fathers with this set that pairs Ordinary Americans in the Revolution with America’s Founding Fathers. First, delve into the perspectives and experiences of the common people who made the American Revolution happen, from political activists, soldiers, and shopkeepers to Native Americans, enslaved people, and British loyalists. Then, use the Founding Fathers as a lens through which to see powerful truths about the early political history of the United States.
In the annals of ancient times, few stories are more gripping than that of the Hellenistic Age. These centuries between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the rise of Rome were a time of extraordinary expansion as Greek culture stepped out onto an enormous stage and became the heart of a world-historical civilization whose intellectual, spiritual, and artistic influence endures to this day.
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