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Lecturer: Richard Beeman
Dr.
Richard R. Beeman has been on the faculty of the Department
of History at Penn for thirty-six years. He is an historian of
the American Revolutionary Era, and has written five books and
several dozen articles on aspects of America's political and constitutional
history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His
fifth book, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth
Century America , is a wide-ranging, interpretive study of
the uncertain and confused origins of democracy in America. It
was published in the Spring of 2004 as part of the McNeil Series
in Early American History by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Professor Beeman's essay, "Benjamin Franklin and the American
Enlightenment," appears in the Penn Reading Project special edition
of Franklin's Autobiography (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2005).
Professor Beeman has served as
Chair of the Department of History, Associate Dean in SAS responsible
for the School's humanities and social sciences departments, and
as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He also continues
to serve in his role as Vice-Chair of the Academic Advisory Board
and as Chair of the Program and Exhibits Committee of the Board
of Trustees of the National Constitution Center.
Professor Beeman's teaching activities
at Penn have ranged over numerous topics dealing with the History
of the United States from the founding of the colonies up to the
Civil War. His current teaching responsibilities include: the
first half of the introductory undergraduate survey course, "United
States History, 1607-1865"; an upper level undergraduate course
on "America in the Era of the Revolution;" and graduate courses
on politics and political culture in eighteenth and early nineteenth
century America.
Professor Beeman has received numerous
awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Huntington Library. He has
served as a Fulbright Professor in the United Kingdom and as Vyvian
Harmsworth Distinguished Professor of American History at Oxford
University. His is currently writing a history of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787.
B.A.: University of California,
Berkeley, 1964
M.A.: College of William and Mary, 1965
Ph.D.: University of Chicago (History), 1968
Dr.
Richard R. Beeman has been on the faculty of the Department
of History at Penn for thirty-six years. He is an historian of
the American Revolutionary Era, and has written five books and
several dozen articles on aspects of America's political and constitutional
history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His
fifth book, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth
Century America , is a wide-ranging, interpretive study of
the uncertain and confused origins of democracy in America. It
was published in the Spring of 2004 as part of the McNeil Series
in Early American History by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Professor Beeman's essay, "Benjamin Franklin and the American
Enlightenment," appears in the Penn Reading Project special edition
of Franklin's Autobiography (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2005).