Nancy Hart: Georgia's Revolutionary War Heroine and the Tory Hangings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1912, a railroad crew in northeast Georgia uncovered a row of skeletons, several with broken ...
3 Okt 23min
Society of the Cincinnati: The Founders' Hereditary Elite Controversy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1783, Continental Army officers led by Henry Knox founded the Society of the Cincinnati, name...
3 Okt 22min
George Wythe: Jefferson's Mentor Murdered by His Own Grandnephew
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Wythe signed the Declaration of Independence, trained Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, an...
3 Okt 23min
Prince Hall: Founder of Black Freemasonry and Civil Rights Pioneer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1770s Boston, colonists demanded liberty while denying it to their Black neighbors. Prince Ha...
3 Okt 18min
Paul Cuffe: Shipping Magnate, Civil Rights Pioneer, Visionary
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!As a teenager during the American Revolution, Paul Cuffe ran the British blockade in a small ope...
3 Okt 21min
Early American Currency: From Beaver Pelts to the Continental
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the U.S. dollar existed, colonists paid with wampum, tobacco, beaver pelts, and Spanish s...
3 Okt 26min
The Compromise of 1790: The Dinner That Created Washington, D.C.
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1790, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton sat down to a pri...
3 Okt 22min
Nathanael Greene: The General Who Won by Losing Battles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Raised in a strict Quaker household and turned down for an officer's commission because of a lim...
3 Okt 26min
