Reluctant Revolutionaries: Rebellion in the Age of Reason

$15 members | $20 nonmembers

Join us for an illuminating talk on the many colonists who hesitated to break from Britain—even as events like the Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, and the Battle of Long Island pushed America toward independence. Dr. Richard Harris explores how Enlightenment thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine persuaded a divided population that revolution—and a new beginning—was the right path. Discover the ideas that turned reluctant subjects into revolutionaries.