SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, April 23, 2009

“Radio Times,” with Marty Moss-Coane, National Public Radio, April 14, 2009

The John Batchelor Show, WABC New York, April 19, 2009

Plain, Honest Men book launch event, National Constitution Center, televised by S-Span Book TV, May 16-18

UPCOMING PUBLIC APPEARNCES BY RICHARD BEEMAN

June 16, 2009 -- Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., “The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Lessons in Political Leadership.”

June 25, 2009 -- The Dallas Bar Association, Dallas, TX—“Original Intent and the Making of the American Constitution.”

July 22, 2009 -- National Conference of State Legislators, Philadelphia, PA—“The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Lessons in Political Leadership.”

Professor Beeman is available to deliver lectures on a wide variety of topics relating to the history of the
American Revolution and the Formation of the Constitution.   

Among the topics on which he is able to speak are:

"The Founding Fathers and 'Original Intent:
The Lessons of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 for Contemporary Constitutional Interpretation."

"The Constitutional Convention of 1787:
Lessons in Leadership."

"George Washington:
The Indispensable Man of the Constitutional Convention."

"The Revolutionary Character of the American Constitution."

"The Revolutionary Character of the American Revolution."

"The Founding Fathers, Democracy, and the History of Presidential Elections in the United States."

"Sex, Lies, and the Founding Fathers:
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the Advent of Sensationalist News Coverage in America."

For further information, please contact Richard Beeman at rbeeman@sas.upenn.edu