ARP334 Land Ordinance of 1784
Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book...
17 Nov 202432min
ARP333 Revolution and Slavery
At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. So...
10 Nov 202433min
AR-SP27 Lord Dunmore's War Round Table
The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a grea...
3 Nov 202455min
ARP332 Society of the Cincinnati
In 1783, General Henry Knox proposes the establishment of a private organization for Continental officers called The Society of the Cincinnati. National leaders see the new group as a threat trying to...
27 Okt 202432min
ARP331 Washington Goes Home
In November, 1783, Washington takes leave of his officers and the army after the British Depart New York. Washington makes his way to Annapolis to resign. Congress misses the arrival of the Dutch Amba...
20 Okt 202431min
ARP330 Evacuation of New York
Although parties had established a preliminary peace treaty in 1782, the process of moving the British army and loyalist civilians out of New York took well over a year. General Guy Carleton remained ...
13 Okt 202433min
AR-SP26 Powder Alarm - Round Table Discussion
The Powder Alarm resulted from a British raid in September, 1774 to capture powder from a local storage site. It made clear that the patriots needed better intelligence and a better rapid response sys...
6 Okt 202452min
ARP329 Signing the Peace Treaty
Although major operations of the war ended in 1781, it took several more years before negotiators could work out a peace treaty. The American Peace Commissioners bickered with one another, and had to ...
29 Sep 202434min
