McConnell Center Director Dr. Gary Gregg and Dr. Thomas Mackey, Professor of History at the University of Louisville, explore the history of colonial America and provide context for Kirk's chapter on the period. Corresponding Reading 

Chapter 9, pp. 301-345 of Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order

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Additional Resources

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic
Jack Greene, The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776.
Jack Rakove
Pauline Maier
Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800.
Richard B. Bernstein
Peter C. Hoffer
Alan S. Taylor
John P. Demos
Timothy H. Breen
Fred Anderson

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Host: Dr. Gary L. Gregg II, McConnell Center Director
Guest: Dr. Thomas Mackey, University of Louisville
Producer and Editor: Will Randolph, McConnell Scholar

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