Paul Andrew Otto

Teaching American History Seminar: Native American Assimilation and Resistance
2026-04-23 08:30 - 14:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kern High School District, Bakersfield, California
U.S. History textbooks cover Native American resistance to eventual assimilation. We read about why it was done and the outcome, but how much do we truly understand?
This is a private event.

Teaching American History Seminar: Native American Assimilation and Resistance
2026-04-22 08:30 - 14:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Modesto, California, Modesto, CA, United States

Lecture Series -- The Uncertain Road to Independence: An American Revolution Retrospective
2026-04-11 13:00 - 14:30, 2026-03-14 13:00 - 14:30, 2026-02-14 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-08 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-11 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Newberg Public Library, 503 E Hancock St, Newberg, Oregon, 97132
The American Revolution, which led to independence from the British crown, was not predetermined or foreordained. This series of lectures explores the steps English colonists took that unexpectedly led them from loyal British subjects to American patriots, from dependent colonies to a sovereign nation.
Topics & Schedule

Sept 13, 2025
1:00pm
British North America: The Colonies in 1763

Oct 11, 2025
1:00pm
Protesting Parliament: The Stamp Act Crisis

Nov 8, 2025
1:00pm
No Taxation without Representation: The Townshend Duties

Feb 14, 2026
1:00pm
The Final Straw? The Tea Act

Mar 14, 2026
1:00pm
From Protest to Armed Resistance: The Intolerable Acts

April 11, 2026
1:00pm
British No More: Declaring Independence

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Public Lecture -- Founding Ideologies: Why American Colonists Protested and Declared Independence
2026-03-28 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Coos Bay Public Library, 525 Anderson Avenue, Coos Bay, OR, 97420, United States
It is said that “the past is a foreign country,” and that is no less true of our own. As familiar as the story of American Independence may seem to the nation’s citizens today, the intellectual world of the Founders was very different than ours. This lecture looks at three distinct revolutionary-era ideologies and demonstrates how they inspired colonists to resist Parliamentary rule and eventually declare their independence from Crown and country.

Founding Ideologies: American Colonists and Revolution
2026-01-10 10:30 - 11:30 UTC | California
This short lecture will survey the dominant ideologies found among the Patriots (and Loyalists) in the era of the American Revolution. English constitutional principles, classical republicanism, and Lockean liberalism were all manifest in the thinking, writing, and culture of the Founding generation.
(Not open to the public.)

Teaching American History Seminar: The American Founding
2025-10-06 08:30 - 14:15 (America/Denver) | California
The seminar offers an overview of the principles of the American Founding by exploring three historical stages of the American Revolution: colonial resistance in the 1760s and early 1770s, declaring independence, and the creation of new governments. Documents will include the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but also Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Common Sense, and the Articles of Confederation.

Lecture Series — The Uncertain Road to Independence: An American Revolution Retrospective
2025-09-13 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Newberg Public Library, 503 E Hancock St, Newberg, Oregon, 97132
