{"id":858,"date":"2026-02-05T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=858"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:45:59","slug":"film-screening-in-order-to-be-free-1754-1775","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/event\/film-screening-in-order-to-be-free-1754-1775\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening:  &#8220;In Order to Be Free&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Mississippi University for Women presents &#8220;In Order To be Free (1754-1775),&#8221; the first episode from the new Ken Burns documentary,<em> The American Revolution.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">This episode covers the period from May 1754 through May 1775, during which time political grievances and revolutionary ideas ferment. The growing tensions between the American colonists and the British government over issues of land, taxes, and sovereignty culminate in the outbreak of armed conflict at Lexington and Concord. What begins as a political clash grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations and forever change the world.\u200b Learn more about the episode, the key players, and critical documents at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kenburns\/the-american-revolution\/episode-1\">PBS<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">The entire documentary is 6 episodes total with each episode running approximately 2 hours in length.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Admission is free and open to the public.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">For more information, call the MUW Department of History, Political Science, and Geography at (662) 329-7390.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in watching the first episode of the new Ken Burns documentary\u00a0The American Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":451,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5,6,7,9,10],"class_list":["post-858","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-america","tribe_events_cat-community-events","tribe_events_cat-film","tribe_events_cat-students","tribe_events_cat-thoughtfullearning","cat_america","cat_community-events","cat_film","cat_students","cat_thoughtfullearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/858\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/hpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}