By Nana Coupeau In 1761, Phillis Wheatley, a young West African girl, was captured and brought to America on a slave ship. There Susanna Wheatley, wife of prominent Boston businessman John Wheatley, bought her at an auction to serve as lady’s maid. The “gap-toothed girl wrapped in nothing more than a quantity of dirty carpet”…
Tag: Universal History
Getting to Know the REAL Ben Franklin [Episode 4 of the Unfinished Symphony series]
In this 4th of a series of historical videos inspired by the audiobook of Clash of the Two Americas vol 1 (the Unfinished Symphony) you will be introduced to a side of Benjamin Franklin which has been suppressed by 250 years of revisionist history. This involves seeing him as a scientist, statesmen, poet and cultural…
Tomorrow’s Arctic: Theatre of War or Cooperation? The Real Story Behind the Alaska Purchase
By Matthew Ehret Today, the Arctic has increasingly become identified as a domain of great prosperity and cooperation amongst world civilizations on the one side and a domain of confrontation and war on the other. In 2007, the Russian government first voiced its support for the construction of the Bering Strait rail tunnel connecting the Americas with…
Ode to the Orange Tree
Timeless Conversation Between Two Aristocratic Men Gu Yuan & Guo Moruo By Quan Le This is the occasion for expressing some of my desultory remarks on Chinese culture, history and more generally on epistemology, my core interest. Epistemology has 3 theoretical branches : theory of knowledge, heuristics/maieutics and hermeneutics. Epistemology has one practical application at…
The 4 Seeds, Timeless Education and Universal History
This presentation is about the most powerful tool to achieve the final goal of Universal History, which is everlasting Peace & Prosperity for all. For this, we need to match, in the diverse human societies on Earth, the epistemological stature of a given person with his social status. We need to guarantee that our cultural…
The Quantum Leap of the Soul’s Journey Across Chinese, Greek and Indian Cultures
By Dr. Quan Le I would like to offer some desultory remarks on the timeless Journey of the Soul. This Journey gives the most powerful and deepest meaning to our human life. It is also called the path of human epistemological development. And this development is nurtured through education. Educate comes from the latin word…
Freedom, Unity, Wisdom- America’s Justice System as Constitutional Order Envisioned in Plato’s Laws
The United States’ legal system grew directly out of English common law, yet also introduced something new and revolutionary which had never before been seen in world history. The first part of this presentation analyzes the evolution of American jurisprudence from English common law, through the Articles of Confederation, to the present Constitutional order and…
Darwin, Kepler, Shakespeare and Ertugrul: The Scientific Art of Universal History
What does science have to do with politics? What does economics have to do with art? What does atomic physics have to do with music? If these questions seem confusing, then don’t feel bad. Our entire civilization has been living under a paradigm that has compartmentalized human knowledge for many generations and in this discussion…