Ep. 306 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Chuck Schwam | Lafayette & Liberty: A Founding Alliance Revisited for America 250
The Marquis de Lafayette came to America as a young man to aid the colonists in the American Revolution. He would return 47 years later at the invitation of President James Monroe and Congress to tou...
19 Jun 58min
Ep. 305 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Doug Maclntyre | America 250: Sullivan's Island - A Crucial Stand for Freedom
It's a year after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and only days before the Declaration of Independence would be signed. It's June 1776 and along the shores of South Carolina, British troops are a...
11 Jun 56min
Ep. 304 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Libby McNamee | The Historic 40 Mile Ride of Sybil Ludington
Did you know two years after Paul Revere's famous ride, there was a second ride made by a teenaged woman? That's right. On April 26, 1777, 16-year old Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles throughout the nig...
5 Jun 54min
Ep. 303 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Lucas Morel | Elizabeth Freeman and the Promise of Liberty
The story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" is inspirational. Born into slavery in New York in 1744, she spent most of her life in Massachusetts. Following the ratification of the new Massachusetts Constitution...
23 Mai 55min
Ep. 302 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Kurt Smith | How Virginia Set the Stage for the Declaration
Regular followers of Constituting America know we view the Declaration of Independence as one of the greatest documents ever written. An interesting point to ponder is that it had to come from somewh...
16 Mai 56min
Ep. 301 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Richard Bell | The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
The American Revolution obviously changed the course of American History. That's a given. Have you ever contemplated how that singular event changed the course of world history over the ensuing cent...
8 Mai 56min
Ep. 300 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Scott Harris | A Young Patriot: James Monroe Turns 18 in 1776
As a teenager, he dropped out of college and served in the in the 3rd Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army. After studying law under Thomas Jefferson, he later served in the Virginia House of De...
1 Mai 53min
Ep. 299 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | Scot Faulkner | No Tax Without Consent: The Fight for Self-Government
Every now and then a government does something that goes just a bit too far and causes the people to protest. One such example was the British imposition of the Stamp Act on the American Colonies. W...
24 Apr 54min
