Podcast appearances and mentions of richard beeman

Sex, Lies, and the Founders Pt 1: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman delivers the final lecture in his “Inventing a Nation” series on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 pm in Decker Theatre of the Gibson Center for the Arts at Washington College, 300 Washington Avenue. In a talk titled “Sex, Lies, and the Founders: The American Presidency, Democracy, and the Media, ” Beeman will discuss how the democratization of American presidential politics and the development of an aggressive news media has eroded the barrier between a president’s public life and his private affairs. The talk is sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center at Washington College, where Beeman is a Senior Fellow, and is free and open to the public.

Sex, Lies, and the Founders Pt 2: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman delivers the final lecture in his “Inventing a Nation” series, a talk titled “Sex, Lies, and the Founders: The American Presidency, Democracy, and the Media, ” Beeman will discuss how the democratization of American presidential politics and the development of an aggressive news media has eroded the barrier between a president’s public life and his private affairs. The talk is sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center at Washington College, where Beeman is a Senior Fellow, and is free and open to the public.

Sex, Lies, and the Founders Pt 3: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman delivers the final lecture in his “Inventing a Nation” series, a talk titled “Sex, Lies, and the Founders: The American Presidency, Democracy, and the Media, ” Beeman will discuss how the democratization of American presidential politics and the development of an aggressive news media has eroded the barrier between a president’s public life and his private affairs. The talk is sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center at Washington College, where Beeman is a Senior Fellow, and is free and open to the public.

Original Meaning Pt 1: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, will offer a special four-week series of public talks at the College this fall. The series, “Inventing a Nation,” will provide attendees a crash course in the dramatic highs and lows of America’s first twenty-five years. Americans today often disagree--and disagree vehemently--on how the United States Constitution should be interpreted. Professor Beeman will explore how the Founders themselves understood the meaning of many of the clauses which they drafted and how they might have wished their Constitution to be interpreted by subsequent generations. Beeman has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for 43 years and is one of the nation’s leading historians of America’s revolutionary and early national experience. He has recently joined the Washington College community as a Senior Fellow of the Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture.

Original Meaning Pt 2: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, will offer a special four-week series of public talks at the College this fall. The series, “Inventing a Nation,” will provide attendees a crash course in the dramatic highs and lows of America’s first twenty-five years. Americans today often disagree--and disagree vehemently--on how the United States Constitution should be interpreted. Professor Beeman will explore how the Founders themselves understood the meaning of many of the clauses which they drafted and how they might have wished their Constitution to be interpreted by subsequent generations. Beeman has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for 43 years and is one of the nation’s leading historians of America’s revolutionary and early national experience. He has recently joined the Washington College community as a Senior Fellow of the Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture.

Original Meaning Pt 3: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, will offer a special four-week series of public talks at the College this fall. The series, “Inventing a Nation,” will provide attendees a crash course in the dramatic highs and lows of America’s first twenty-five years. Americans today often disagree--and disagree vehemently--on how the United States Constitution should be interpreted. Professor Beeman will explore how the Founders themselves understood the meaning of many of the clauses which they drafted and how they might have wished their Constitution to be interpreted by subsequent generations. Beeman has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for 43 years and is one of the nation’s leading historians of America’s revolutionary and early national experience. He has recently joined the Washington College community as a Senior Fellow of the Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture. Cosponsored by the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Cultureand the Department of History

Church and State Pt 1: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, will offer a special four-week series of public talks at the College this fall. The series, “Inventing a Nation,” will provide attendees a crash course in the dramatic highs and lows of America’s first twenty-five years. Americans today disagree over how high the "wall of separation" between church and state should be. Professor Beeman will explore the attitudes of the members of the Constitutional Convention toward the relationship between church and state and then move forward in time to discuss the ways in which subsequent generations have come to view the role of religion in public life. Beeman has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for 43 years and is one of the nation’s leading historians of America’s revolutionary and early national experience. He has recently joined the Washington College community as a Senior Fellow of the Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture. Cosponsored by the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture, and the Department of History.

Church and State Pt 2: Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, will offer a special four-week series of public talks at the College this fall. The series, “Inventing a Nation,” will provide attendees a crash course in the dramatic highs and lows of America’s first twenty-five years. Americans today disagree over how high the "wall of separation" between church and state should be. Professor Beeman will explore the attitudes of the members of the Constitutional Convention toward the relationship between church and state and then move forward in time to discuss the ways in which subsequent generations have come to view the role of religion in public life. Beeman has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania for 43 years and is one of the nation’s leading historians of America’s revolutionary and early national experience. He has recently joined the Washington College community as a Senior Fellow of the Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture. Cosponsored by the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture, and the Department of History.

Somebody had to. We talk to Richard Beeman, author of the best-selling book "Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution."