Henry Laurens: Slave Trader, Congress President, Tower of London Prisoner
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Laurens rose from a Charleston Huguenot merchant family to become president of the Contine...
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John Laurens: Revolutionary Abolitionist, Soldier and Hamilton's Friend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Laurens was born in 1754 into one of the wealthiest slave-trading families in colonial Amer...
3 Okt 23min
Battle of Lake Erie 1813: Oliver Hazard Perry's Rowboat Gamble
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On September 10, 1813, a ragtag American fleet built in the Pennsylvania wilderness took on a Br...
3 Okt 23min
Citizen Genet: The Rogue French Diplomat Who Defied George Washington
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1793, French minister Edmond-Charles Genet landed in Charleston instead of Philadelphia and b...
3 Okt 22min
American Flag History: Betsy Ross Myths, Hopkinson and the Flag Code
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Almost everything we learn in grade school about the origin of the American flag is shakier than...
3 Okt 26min
The Real Hessians: German Soldiers of the American Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Washington Irving's Headless Horseman was a Hessian trooper, but the real German soldiers of the...
3 Okt 22min
Lydia Darragh: The Quaker Midwife Who Spied for George Washington
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lydia Darragh was a Quaker pacifist, mother and Philadelphia midwife, and according to family ac...
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John Paul Jones: Fugitive, Naval Hero and Mummified American Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1905, an American ambassador unearthed a lead coffin in Paris holding a body preserved in alc...
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