OUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — A community education course on the United States is coming to Arkansas State University-Mountain Home next year.
The course, titled “From Colonies to Country: The Story of the American Revolution”, will be taught by adjunct instructor Jim Carroll and film producer Peter Giuliano. The course will examine the British colonies in North America before the American Revolution, why and how they were able to unite and successfully defeat the greatest military power on earth at the time and mold themselves into the greatest country the world has ever seen.
The course will be a series of lectures, historical movies, and audio-visuals that are designed to be fun, informative and patriotic, according to college officials. All of the classes will be in the Ozark Regional Arts Council conference room at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center on the campus of ASUMH January 7 through March 19 from 3-4:30 pm every Tuesday and Thursday.
The curriculum is based on several books, including The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson, Independence and Almost a Miracle by John Ferling, Washington’s Immortals by Patrick K. O’Donnell and films like “Founding Fathers” and “John Adams”. Some of the lectures will feature guest speakers from the Mountain Home Captain Nathan Watkins Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Organizers say that in addition to the usual roster of figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, special attention will be paid to the women of the Revolution like Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher, Dolly Madison, and Deborah Franklin, one of the original advocates of the second amendment in 1765–23 years before the Constitution was ratified.
Proceeds from the course will go to the Scalia Institute of Criminal Justice at ASUMH.
For more information visit www.asumh.edu or call 870-508-6105.
