Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation

Contents: Lecture 1. The Revolution and the generation — Lecture 2. Anglo-America in 1763 and Benjamin Franklin — Lecture 3. The Constitutional crisis, 1763-74, and John Adams — Lecture 4. The imperial crisis, 1763-75, and George Washington — Lecture 5. The spirit of '76 and Thomas Jefferson — Lecture 6. What the Declaration declared — Lecture 7. The long war, 1775-83, and Joseph Plumb Martin — Lecture 8. Confederation to Constitution and Alexander Hamilton — Lecture 9. A more perfect union and James Madison — Lecture 10. The ghost at the banquet: slavery — Lecture 11. Crucial decade: The Federalist agenda — Lecture 12. Crucial decade: party politics — Lecture 13. The restoration of 1800 — Lecture 14. American dialogue: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.