{"id":268,"date":"2026-10-29T22:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:32:19","slug":"transcript-sedso-300-civics-the-founder-you-were-never-assigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/2026\/10\/29\/transcript-sedso-300-civics-the-founder-you-were-never-assigned\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript + SEDSO 300: Civics: The founder you were never assigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sedso.io\/reports\/us\/wi\/uw-madison\/26\/birkhaug\/warren-story-1080x1920.png\" width=\"95%\"><br \/>\n<\/center><Br><Br><a href=\"https:\/\/sedso.io\/reports\/us\/wi\/uw-madison\/26\/birkhaug\/\">Transcript, slides &#038; audio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 26 at the UW\u2013Madison Law School, Kirstin Birkhaug of Hope College made a case for reading Mercy Otis Warren. The men we call the founders wrote almost nothing systematic about civic virtue; the people who did were mostly women, excluded from office and writing instead. Warren\u2019s argument was that liberty is only ever learned by not having it \u2014 so a republic survives exactly as long as it keeps remembering what being unfree felt like. She doubted the Constitution could do that work, pressed for what became the Bill of Rights, and when that was settled, wrote a two-volume history of the Revolution as an act of public memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript, slides &#038; audio: On October 26 at the UW\u2013Madison Law School, Kirstin Birkhaug of Hope College made a case for reading Mercy Otis Warren. The men we call the founders wrote almost nothing systematic about civic virtue; the people who did&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}