About America's 'European' Identity....

Описание: Lots of people these days want you to know America used to have a European identity. These are the same people who will tell you Mexico doesn't have a European identity but I digress.

But what would early Americans have thought about that? What did their writings, letters, and newspapers say? Was the American Revolution just another European war, or was it the start of something new?

And what did Europeans think when they met their long lost kin again in the World Wars?

Well, let's find out

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0:00 Intro
2:12 1750: When America was British
6:54 Americans and their Rights as English
8:22 The American Revolution Begins
9:19 The Declaration of Independence Severs Ties
11:03 America's Post-Revolutionary Culture
13:16 Our Earliest Government: the AoC
14:06 The Constitutional Convention
16:17 The US Constitution and European Ideas
18:37 The Framing Everyone Misses
20:47 Gerrymandering
21:29 An English-American's Perspective (Pierce Butler)
23:28 Madison, Washington, and Common Law
24:40 American Culture Begins
25:48 America's Historic Immigration Policy
28:32 One Question Remains
30:45 Europe was not American
34:13 Don't Meet your Heroes
35:22 Europe's American Identity
36:55 With Apologies to Transnational Historians
40:06 A Retrospective
41:36 My Problem with the 'European Identity' Theory
44:08 Outro