Partnership Programs: American Revolution Native American Series Southeast Asian Tour STEMTEC Teachers as Scholars Witness for Freedom American Revolution: Resources {Books, lesson plans, links, videos, and more} Evaluations {Read what the participants have to say about each session.} "To Form a More Perfect Union" (PDF) Read the article printed in Five College Ink magazine about the series (PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 to view. Download free program) Theme: The Enduring Ambiguity and Exultation of "Liberty" Faculty: Neal Salisbury nsalisbu@email.smith.edu Smith College; Neilson Library 2/08 ext. 3726 Professor, Colonial North America, Native American Scholarly interests center on indigenous peoples in North America, particularly in New England and during the era of European colonization. Author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (Oxford University Press, 1982); an edition of Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997; orig. pub. 1682); and The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (Houghton Mifflin), a college-level survey text, now in its fourth edition. Current projects include a second volume to extend the story in Manitou and Providence through the end of the seventeenth century; The Blackwell Companion to Native American History, a volume of essays edited with Philip J. Deloria; and the pre-Columbian and colonial-era chapters of a textbook in Native American history. Teaching includes lecture courses on North America, 1400-1800; Native American Indians, 1400-present; a seminar on the American Revolution; and colloquia on various topics in colonial, Native American, western American history, and on the teaching of history in secondary schools. Bob Hansbury is a social studies teacher and department chair at Belchertown High School. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Mass. Council for the Social Studies. He has participated in many Partnership programs through the years including the Native American series and Daniel Shays. "Liberty" was a word invoked often during the eighteenth century, especially during the Atlantic revolutionary era (1775-1821), and is one that continues to resonate deeply in the political vocabularies of most Americans. A close look at uses of the term in the eighteenth century reveals that it had a number of distinct, often-shifting meanings. We will examine the various uses of the term in the older Anglo-American political tradition and during the revolutionary era itself. How do we account for the variety of meanings associated with "liberty"? Was this variety a result of historical events, of social distinctions, or of distinct, deep-seated ideological traditions? We will pay particular attention to the emergence during the decade or so preceding the revolution of a sharp opposition between "liberty" and "slavery." What were the implications of rebellious colonists' juxtapositions of "liberty" and "slavery" for the institution of racial slavery and for those who were, or had recently been, enslaved within that system? Secondary Readings: Gary B. Nash, "The Tri-Colored American Revolution," in Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America, 4th ed., ch. 11. Joyce Appelby, "Liberalism and the American Revolution," New England Quarterly 4 (1976), 3-26. Linda K. Kerber, "'I Have Don . . . much to Carrey on the Warr': Women and the Shaping of Republican Ideology after the American Revolution," Journal of Women's History 1 (1990), 231-43. Paul Finkelman, "Slavery and the Constitutional Convention: Making a Covenant with Death," in R. Beeman, et al (eds.), Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity, pp. 188-225. Primary Source Readings: Stephen Hopkins, "The Rights of the Colonies Examined" (1765) in Pamphlets of the American Revolution, ed. Bernard Bailyn, pp. 507-22. Thomas Jefferson, "A Summary View of the Rights of British America" [1774], in Tracts of the American Revolution, ed. Merrill Jensen. Caesar Sarter, "Essay on Slavery" [1774], in Gary B. Nash, Race and Revolution, pp. 167-70. William Manning, The Key of Liberty (excerpt), ed. M. Merrill and S. Wilentz, pp. 138-45.