BFW Revisited: Religion and the American Revolution
In late spring 1776, 150 armed revolutionary soldiers marched into the Anglican Trinity Church to warn the reverend to stop praying for King George III and his family. The reverend read the prayers an...
13 Okt 55min
452 How Everyday Loyalists Experienced the Revolution
We often ask why some Americans chose to remain loyal to the British and why they did not want to seek independence. But the question some Americans asked at the time of the Revolution focused more on...
6 Okt 1h 23min
BFW Revisited: The Reintegration of American Loyalists
What would it take for you to forgive a neighbor who sided against you in a civil war? And what would you say to win back a community that you had fought against?In our last episode, we explored loyal...
29 Sep 48min
BFW Revisited: Loyalism in the British Atlantic World
In the late winter of 1775, colonists in a village outside of New York City hoisted the royal standard of King George III 75 feet into the air. The standard raisers signed their names to a proclamatio...
22 Sep 1h 6min
BFW Bonus: We Want More History
American history is in the news a lot these days. We see and hear about fights over monuments, textbooks, and the stories we should include or exclude from our museums and historic markers.What these ...
18 Sep 20min
451 The Court-Martial That Put The American Revolution on Trial
In December 1777, Continental Army Colonel David Henley climbed off his horse to discipline a drunk British prisoner of war who was screaming epithets about Americans and vowing to fight for his king....
15 Sep 1h 5min
BFW Revisited: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
What caused the American Revolution? Taxation without representation? Colonies that had outgrown their dependence on the British Empire? Or something harder to see: a quarrel about power itself and ab...
8 Sep 51min
450 Whose Revolution? The Delaware and the War for Independence
In December 1776, a Delaware Chief named White Eyes stood before the Second Continental Congress. He had not come to declare himself a revolutionary, nor had he come to pledge his loyalty to King Geor...
1 Sep 1h 8min
