Shadow Politics, January 17, 2021
Shadow Politics with Senator Michael Brown and Maria Sanchez
Guest, Terry Bouton, Associate Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Headlined Show, Shadow Politics January 17, 2021
Our guest is Terry Bouton, an Associate Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and was an observer of the "Stop the Steal" insurrection on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. On January 6, 2021, there was an attack at the heart of our democracy, the Capitol Building. Join Maria and I as we get a first-hand account of the activities that led up to this violent insurrection. Five people died, the institutions of our democracy were violated and rioters attempted to overthrow the will of the people. Tune in as we discuss what happened and try to make sense of it all with someone who was actually there.
Guest, Terry Bouton
Terry Bouton is an Associate Professor of History at UMBC. He was the 2012-2015 Presidential Teaching Professor at UMBC and an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer. He teaches courses on the American Revolution, the Constitution, the Early National Period, and the Atlantic Revolutions of the late-18th to mid-19th centuries (the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American revolutions). His research examines the meaning and practice of democracy during the era of the American Revolution. His first book, Taming Democracy: “The People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (Oxford, 2007), won the 2008 Philip S. Klein Book Prize and was an Honorable Mention for the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
Currently he is working on a new book entitled, “Foreign Founders: How European Financiers Helped Write the Constitution,” that explores the influence of foreign investors in shaping the nation’s founding moment.
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