The Gaspee Affair: The 1772 Raid That Sparked the Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!More than a year before the Boston Tea Party, Rhode Island merchants rowed out in the dead of ni...
3 Okt 21min
James Madison and the Messy Origins of the Bill of Rights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Bill of Rights is often imagined as a unanimous act of visionary idealism, but its real orig...
3 Okt 25min
John Dickinson: The Founder Who Refused to Sign Independence
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1776, the man known as the penman of the revolution stood before the Continental Congres...
3 Okt 20min
George Mason: The Forgotten Founder Who Forced the Bill of Rights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, helped shape the Constitutional Conventio...
3 Okt 23min
The Boston Tea Party: Cheap Tea, a Corporate Bailout and Revolt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Tea Act of 1773 actually made legal tea cheaper for American colonists, yet it led to the de...
3 Okt 26min
Treaty of Paris 1783: Secret Deals and Britain's Economic Long Game
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Benjamin West's painting of the 1783 peace negotiations is half blank because the British delega...
3 Okt 23min
Articles of Confederation: America's Failed First Constitution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From 1781 to 1789 the United States operated as a "firm league of friendship" with a national go...
3 Okt 27min
John Jay: The Overlooked Founding Father Who Built Early America
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3 Okt 22min
