Algernon Sidney: Martyr for Liberty

Algernon Sidney: the great hero and martyr for liberty in the seventeenth century. Sidney is little known today - with not even a fraction of the fame of his contemporary John Locke - but he was deeply admired and influential among English patriots and the Founding Fathers during the American Revolution for laying everything down for the cause of free government and the right of the people to resist tyranny.

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:22 – Resistance Theory
5:31 - Sidney and the American Revolution
8:49 - Highlights from Sidney
13:45 - Early Biography of Sidney
21:43 - Sidney and the Restoration of the Crown
26:58 - Court Maxims
32:05 - Exile in France
36:14 - Sidney's return to England
40:35 - Discourses Concerning Government
48:12 - The Rye House Plot and Sidney's Arrest
54:20 - Trial for treason
57:13 - Sidney's last words
101:05 - The Aftermath: James II and the Glorious Revolution
106:35 - Cato's Letters on Algernon Sidney

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Dr. Jonathan Barth received his PhD in History from George Mason University in 2014. He specializes in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. Barth is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.

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