Remembering the Boston Tea Party (8:26)

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This segment contains video excerpts from the core course HSB40. Professor Ulrich explores the varied ways in which the Boston Tea Party has been remembered over time.

When Thomas Jefferson listed the "pursuit of happiness" as one of the unalienable rights of humankind, he offered future generations an evocative but elusive vision of the good society.  This course explores the competing visions of "happiness" that animated political and social life in the half century surrounding the American revolution.  Was happiness best achieved through collective commitment to public good?  Through submission to God?  Or in the possession of property and the cultivation of private affections?  And what happened when happiness became misery or its pursuit provoked political rebellion, riot, scandal, and crime?