Rev250-003 Boston Massacre Oration of 1775
On the 5th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Joseph Warren delivers the oration remembering the massacre of March 5, 1770. The presence of British officers in the audience, combined with the tensio...
6 Mar 20257min
ARP344 Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Congress struggles to find a way to survey and populate its western territories. A group of former officers form the Ohio Company and lobby for an insider deal that will sell some of the prime land a...
2 Mar 202532min
Rev250-002 Conciliatory Resolution
In late February, 1775, Prime Minister, Lord North gets Parliament to support a supposed compromise bill that is actually designed to shore up support in Parliament for the coming war in America. Lear...
27 Feb 20256min
AR-SP30 Defending Fort Stanwix, with Larry Kidder
Author Larry Kidder joins us to discuss his latest book Defending Fort Stanwix, a fort on the western frontier of New York that contributed to the ultimate surrender of the British Army at Saratoga in...
23 Feb 202558min
Rev250-001 Leslie's Retreat
I'm trying something new this week. This is a special supplemental episode that takes a look at events that happened 250 year ago this week. In this episode, we discuss the Salem Raid, also called...
20 Feb 20257min
ARP343 Shays' Rebellion
Massachusetts farmers feel the squeeze caused by excessive taxes to pay down war debt and a shortage of money in circulation. With the laws set up to benefit wealthy eastern merchants, to the detrimen...
16 Feb 202532min
ARP342 Paper Money Riot
Years of issuing paper money to finance the Revolutionary War continued in the post war era. By 1786, farmers in debt wanted to continue paper money policies that would make it easier to pay their de...
9 Feb 202531min
ARP341 Annapolis Convention
The end of the war brought its own difficulties. The states no longer felt a strong need to remain united, and no one wanted to repay their war debts. In September, 1786, a group of nationalists met...
2 Feb 202531min
