The Enlightenment and Intellectual Foundations of the American Revolution

The featured image brings together images of Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld and Adel Aali from the interview, superimposed on the Betsy Ross flag, alongside an image of Dr. Rosenfeld's book Common Sense: A Political History.

Introduction In this interview: “But he’s insisting that both there’s nothing particularly radical in what he’s arguing, because anyone with common sense would know it, and also that ordinary people could probably rule on their own just fine.” Watch this section in the video below (00:34:08). To fully comprehend the American Revolution, we have to […]