Commonwealth Speakers Programs
Commonwealth Heritage and History Programs
are designed to be both entertaining and educational
Programs in the Commonwealth Heritage Series feature interviews with famous and interesting people from America's colonial and founding per-iods. Find out what was really going on from the scoundrels and heroines who made the history.
In now-rare interviews, men like Thomas, 2nd Lord Culpeper (1635-1689) James, Duke of York (1633-1701), William Byrd II of Westover (1674-1744) and General Edward Braddock (1695-1755) and women like Frances Culpeper, Lady Berkeley (1634-1965), Martha Jefferson (1748-1782) and Sally Fairfax (1730-1811) share their (sometimes uncomplimentary) opin-ions about the world in which they lived and other famous people they knew.
We choose our guests from the characters we talk about in the books we publish. These people, from Elizabeth I and her troublesome favorite, Sir Francis Drake, to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, superintended the construction of the world's first modern political society. During these two hundred tumultuous years here was never a dull moment.
Programs in the Commonwealth History Series use narrated slide shows to remember how these fearless (often greedy) adventurers connected with each other and how, in the course of their efforts to accumulate private wealth, they masterminded the construction of a great new society.
This series is compromised of several sets of programs which trace Am-erican social history from the planting of the first English settlement to the monumental Presidential Election of 1800. They begin by remem-bering the adventurers and the impulses that inspired them to plant colonies in the American wilderness. They remember the difficulties associated with establishing the first English settlement in Virginia and how a "civil society" came to be formed there. They remember the conflicts that attended the westward expansion of these British emigrants and how the British Empire was formed. They remember how British Americans united then rebelled against the empire and how they created a new American nation. They conclude by remembering its subsequent division in political factions in the Presidential Election of 1800 and this produced the first modern "political society". Through all these episodes, history never stood still nor passed a dull moment.
Our Commonwealth Education Series contains programs for school aged audiences. Drawing from our Stories for Young Readers, we have created sets of colorfully illustrated presentations that trace the progress of America's war for political independence. These programs take their audiences beyond the drama of day-to-day conflict and show them the importance of character and citizenship for accomplishing the great common good of Liberty.
The lesson underlying these colorful programs is that achievement of the common good is not accomplished by accident. To achieve the common good and to promote the general well-being requires the concerted effort of individuals who have dedicated themselves to achieve their common end.
For more information about these programs contact:
Commonwealth Books, LLC
1800 Edgehill Center
Alexandria, VA 22307
Phone: (703) 407-3719
info@commonwealthbooks.com
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