The Road to Revolution: The Origins of the American Revolution (Enhanced) – Section B Friday

Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 1/8/2025 9:00 AM EST

9000 Babcock Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15237 United States
PSC 101
2/7/2025-3/7/2025
11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST on Fri

The Road to Revolution: The Origins of the American Revolution (Enhanced) – Section B Friday

Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 1/8/2025 9:00 AM EST

The Road to Revolution focuses on colonial American opposition to British imperial policy leading to the movement of resistance against British rule after the 1760s. We will also explore the English historical origins of rights and constitutionalism and the philosophical constructs of resistance to tyranny. Major events such as the Stamp Act crisis, the rise of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, the Boston Tea Party, and the “shot heard round the world” at Lexington and Concord will be explored during these sessions. Engaging visual support for course content and historical narrative will be offered through power point presentations and the PBS video series: Liberty: The American Revolution.

Grimes, Richard
Richard Grimes

Dr. Richard S. Grimes has taught Native American history and early American history for 25 years at West Virginia University and Lifelong Learning Program for West Virginia University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Duquesne University, and LaRoche University. He currently teaches at Penn State University-Beaver. An active researcher and writer, his book The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795: Warriors and Diplomats was published by Lehigh University Press, Studies in the Eighteenth Century and the Atlantic World (October 2017).