Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred M. McClay (Part 1)
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this, the first of a four part series with Hillsdale College, Great American Story: A Land of Hope with Dr. Wilfred M. McClay, one of the nation's foremost historians on America's founding and the Constitution, Charlie and Dr. McClay discuss the vast significance of "the West," the European "unsettlement" and the superiority of English colonization for freedom and economic growth across the world. McClay, who is also the current occupant of the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma, outlines the genesis of the American Revolution all the way up to the emergence of the Declaration of Independence.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, happy Saturday. We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Hillsdale College, |
| 0:05.4 | the beacon of the north, the place where truth is taught and our country is honored. |
| 0:12.3 | When I visit Hillsdale College, I love to see they had statues of Frederick Douglas, George Washington, and my man, Winston Churchill. |
| 0:21.1 | So we have a new partnership with them, and you guys should go to Charlie-F-R-Hillsdale.com. |
| 0:28.1 | That's Charlie-F-O-R-Hillsdale.com. |
| 0:30.4 | So Charlie for Hillsdale, but four is spelled, not the number four. |
| 0:34.6 | And you'll be able to register for the online courses. |
| 0:37.7 | I take the courses every day. |
| 0:39.8 | They are substantive, they're beautiful, they're entertaining, and they are fulfilling. |
| 0:45.6 | So you go to Charlie F-O-R Hillsdale.com, check it out. |
| 0:48.4 | And so every Saturday, for the foreseeable future, we're going to be diving into these ideas with experts from Hillsdale College about the most important issues of the day and how they translate historically and philosophically. |
| 1:05.4 | With us today is Dr. McLeigh from Hillsdale College and University of Oklahoma. |
| 1:10.1 | He is the author of the best textbook you can get your hands on, Land of Hope, The Great American Story. |
| 1:19.2 | And again, you can find that at Charlie for Hillsdale.com. |
| 1:21.5 | Are you afraid your children are not learning proper U.S. history? |
| 1:26.6 | Are you afraid that your children are not being exposed to the Constitution correctly? |
| 1:32.0 | This conversation is a great starting point, and so are the Hillsdale online courses. |
| 1:37.6 | And so I know a lot of you email us, Freedom at Charliekirk.com. Charlie, what do I do? My kids are being propagandized. |
| 1:43.8 | Get them in front of these online courses. |
| 1:45.7 | Encourage them to take them. Take them yourself. You'll appreciate your country even more. |
| 1:50.6 | I want to thank our listeners that are supporting our program. This has no advertisers on this program. |
| 1:57.9 | All there is is the partnership that we have at Hillsdale. So I want to thank those of you that support us, such as Dina from Jackson, California. Thank you for supporting us. |
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