Pursuit: The Founders' Guide to Happiness
National Constitution CenterPursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness, is a 12-part series hosted by Jeffrey Rosen featuring Ken Burns and leading scholars. It explores how the founders understood personal growth and lifelong learning as essential to the common good, why those ideas matter today, and how you can put them into practice.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 15 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | GovernmentHistory | |||
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In this bonus episode, we are sharing recordings from the Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness podcast launch event featuring a performance of Jeffrey Rosen’s The Golden Mean: Songs for the Pursuit of Happiness and Twelve Titans: Songs of the Gr... more
In this bonus episode, we are sharing recordings from the Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness podcast launch event featuring a performance of Jeffrey Rosen’s The Golden Mean: Songs for the Pursuit of Happiness and Twelve Titans: Songs of the Gr... more
In our last episode, listeners share some big and small changes that they have made. Plus, Jeffrey Rosen, filmmaker Ken Burns, and scholar Robert P. George explore Benjamin Franklin’s virtue of silence, which he defines as “speak not but what may ben... more
In this episode, Jeffrey Rosen, Professor David Blight and filmmaker Ken Burns explore how a lifelong love of learning and a desire to promote justice shaped the life of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. He met Abraham Lincoln three times, and those t... more
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Interesting perspective on the Founders, with original music. Would recommend.
Podcast Addict521 days agocptcanuck15- Love the podcast
I have really been enjoying listening to this podcast and learning more about the Founders! I did not know about Ben Franklins virtues and it has gotten me interested learning more and adopting some of his practices. I think it is impressive that the host writes songs for each episode. I look forward to more! Thank you!
Apple Podcasts5Lring16
United Statesa month ago - This series on Happiness and Virtue.
I have enjoyed the music in these podcast because it makes me happy and I consider myself a good person not because of what I do, but because God gives me grace and mercy to love the people I am around.
Apple Podcasts5Grandma conconUnited Statesa month ago - Call it what it is.
Why not call it the U.S. founders? That way the rest of the world (Yes, Virginia, there is one) can decide if we want yet more myopic U.S. culture? It’s basic manners.
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Canada2 months ago - Spare me, please!
Spare me, please!
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Focusing on the intersection of historical insight and personal development, this podcast examines how the thoughts and writings of America's founding figures inform contemporary ideas of happiness and virtue. Episodes feature discussions on the profound impact of lifelong learning, moral philosophy, and the significance of self-improvement in the lives of historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Adamses. Notably, acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns contributes his perspectives, enriching the dialogue with personal anecdotes and reflections on civic duty. The content encourages listeners to think critically about the role of character and moral living in their pursuits of happiness today.
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