Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Shay's Rebellion According to The History Channel

The 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America - Shay's Rebellion: America's First Civil War - January 25, 1787

Bill Plympton animates this chronicle of the post-Revolutionary War rebellion that helped inspire the drafting of the Constitution.



This is a short video from The History Channel's The 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America. Did you see it? Comments?

2 comments:

Brad Hart said...

I really enjoyed the documentary of Shay's rebellion. It is proof positive that the ideas of the revolution and the "spirit of 76" did not end at the war's conclusion.

Lindsey Shuman said...

I never saw this documentary, but I wrote a fairly large paper on Shays' Rebellion. Clearly an important event in early American history. Adding on to the Constitution post, I think we should remember the importance that Shays' Rebellion (and others) had on the establishment of the Constitution.