#usa250 — Public Fediverse posts

FoundersChat: a new #AI tool that lets you chat with the #FoundingFathers based on the original sources, made by @Mark_L_Thompson (with some help from me), covered in Dagblad van het Noorden this weekend!

https://www.dvhn.nl/regio/groningen/rug-historicus-mark-l.-thompson-laat-je-chatten-met-founding-fathers.-wat-zou-donald-trump-moeten-vragen-hier-moet-ik-even-over-nadenken/158209214.html?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=hyperlink

Try chatting with the #FoundingFathers yourself: edu.nl/jwdpq

Hosted on @universityofgroningen infrastructure #DigitalAutonomy

@CIT_RUG @bibliothecaris_channel
@ug_dcc
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social

#America #USA250 #America250 #researchsoftware

If you want to hear the full text after watching these amazing young people, Democracy Now! has posted their annual YT video of the late James Earl Jones reading the full text, here:

#FrederickDouglass #USA250 #Freedom #July4th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6voBttasmk

I have always loved James Earl Jones' delivery of this speech, but gog, this one hits so hard: a few young Frederick Douglass' descendants read excerpts from his, "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" speech.

#FrederickDouglass #USA250 #Freedom #July4th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBe5qbnkqoM

Mr Jefferson's Library

Michael Goldfarb visits the Library of Congress and Jefferson's home at Monticello in Virginia to see how Jefferson's reading shaped the beginnings of American history.

#Radio #USA250 #FoundingFathers #BBC #Documentary

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ybgn