Responsable : Audra Bullard

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Returning to CLE for the third time, historian, legal scholar and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ed Larson will discuss his newest book, “Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters.” As he explains in the book, 1776 marked a dramatic and decisive shift in patriot thinking in response to words and deeds in the by then decade-long American fight for liberty. Those words included Thomas Paine’s widely read “Common Sense,” John Adams’ impactful pamphlet “Thoughts on Government,” the Declaration of Independence, and nearly a dozen new state constitutions. North Carolina joined in with its new constitution opening with the revolutionary repudiation of royal rule: “All political power is vested in and derives from the people only.” In a matter of months, the great bulk of American patriots went from seeking their rights as British subjects under a king to demanding their liberty under representative governments of their own making. With this came the corollary and similarly revolutionary embrace of the principle of the rule of law and the ideal of human political equality. These words and ideas inspired deeds and actions on and off the battlefield that ultimately transformed the meaning of liberty throughout the world.

Ed Larson holds the Darling Chair in Law and is University Professor of History at Pepperdine University. Recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History for “Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion,” Larson received a PhD in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a law degree from Harvard. He taught for twenty years at the University of Georgia where he chaired the history department. The author of fifteen books and over eighty published articles, his books also include “A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800,” “Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory,” and New York Times bestsellers, “The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789” and “Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership.” Larson recently published “American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795.”

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