About America's 'European' Identity....

Lots of people these days want you to know America used to have a European identity. These are the same people who will tell you Mexico doesn't have a European identity but I digress. But what would early Americans have thought about that? What did their writings, letters, and newspapers say? Was the American Revolution just another European war, or was it the start of something new? And what did Europeans think when they met their long lost kin again in the World Wars? Well, let's find out Donate to Car 4 Ukraine: https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/eas... Companion Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b... 0:00 Intro 2:12 1750: When America was British 6:54 Americans and their Rights as English 8:22 The American Revolution Begins 9:19 The Declaration of Independence Severs Ties 11:03 America's Post-Revolutionary Culture 13:16 Our Earliest Government: the AoC 14:06 The Constitutional Convention 16:17 The US Constitution and European Ideas 18:37 The Framing Everyone Misses 20:47 Gerrymandering 21:29 An English-American's Perspective (Pierce Butler) 23:28 Madison, Washington, and Common Law 24:40 American Culture Begins 25:48 America's Historic Immigration Policy 28:32 One Question Remains 30:45 Europe was not American 34:13 Don't Meet your Heroes 35:22 Europe's American Identity 36:55 With Apologies to Transnational Historians 40:06 A Retrospective 41:36 My Problem with the 'European Identity' Theory 44:08 Outro