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Inventing a Nation: The Founders, Religion, and Separation of Church and State

C.V Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

Department of History

Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture

November 1, 2011

Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, Senior Fellow of the C.V Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, continued his four lecture series entitled "Inventing a Nation" with his third lecture exploring the founders of the Constitution, their religion, and the separation of church and state in America.

Press Release

Photos from Lecture 1: The Founders and the Myth of the Original Meaning of the Constitution

Photos from Lecture 2: The Creation of the Bill of Rights

AUDIO for the Inventing the Nation series

Enlarge photos by Kathy Thornton '13.