American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
When:
Monday, Sep 03, 2018 6:00p -
7:30p
Monday, Sep 03, 2018 6:00p -
7:30p
Where:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
$10
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?event=2601
Join us as Craig Bruce Smith presents his new book "American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era."
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom; it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as “honor” and “virtue.” As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans’ ideological break from Europe, shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution, Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains.
Please call 617-646-0578 or register online at www.masshist.org/events. A pre-talk reception will begin at 5:30.
