Revolution 250 Podcast
Revolution 250 is a consortium of organizations in New England planning commemorations of the American Revolution's 250th anniversary. https://revolution250.org/Through this podcast you will meet many of the people involved in these commemorations, and learn about the people who brought about the Revolution--which began here. To support Revolution 250, visit https://www.masshist.org/rev250Theme Music: "Road to Boston" fifes: Doug Quigley, Peter Emerick; Drums: Dave Emerick
Revolution 250 Podcast
Female Genius with Mary Sarah Bilder
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Mary Sarah Bilder
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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In this provocative new biography of Eliza Harriot, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s—the Age of the Constitution—to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: Female Genius.. Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in English-born Eliza Harriot Barons O’Connor. This pathbreaking female educator delivered a a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania attended by George Washington as he and other Constitutional Convention delegates gathered in Philadelphia. A conversation with author and Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.