Penn Professor Richard Beeman on ‘The Daily Show’
Penn History Professor Richard Beeman sat down with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Thursday, April 23, to discuss his new book, “Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution.” Beeman’s latest is a full narrative account of the men who drafted the U.S. Constitution that takes readers behind the scenes and beyond the debates, into Philadelphia taverns and boardinghouses.
Beeman, a historian of the American Revolutionary Era, has written six books and several dozen articles on aspects of America 's political and constitutional history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At Penn, he has taught classes on the United States from the founding of the colonies up to the Civil War, and the history of the American presidency and presidential elections.
To watch Beeman's interview from "The Daily Show," click here.
Originally published on April 24, 2009
