Sunday, July 14, 2013

Freedom of religion v religious tolerance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j8vBhuOfJqQ#at=124 Published on Sep 21, 2012 Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, speaks about George Washington's 1790 letter to the Jewish community in Newport, Longfellow's poem on the same theme, and the history of religious tolerance in American politics at Cambridge Forum. More lectures at http://forum-network.org. Recorded 9/19/12.


 toleration versus inherent national rights

cambridgeforum.org

was the community of newport part of the larger underground railroad?

   hebraic vision of new england

hebraic cultural underpinnings of new england's
    puritans                                                            FDR's r freedoms the rationale for what WWII was fought for