Battle of Great Bridge: The 25-Minute Fight That Freed Virginia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1775, a 25-minute shootout on a narrow causeway through the Great Dismal Swamp ended...
3 Okt 27min
No Taxation Without Representation: History of a Revolutionary Idea
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The slogan no taxation without representation first appeared in print not in Boston but in a 176...
3 Okt 23min
Bernardo de Galvez: The Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Only eight people have ever received honorary U.S. citizenship, and one of them, added in 2014, ...
3 Okt 21min
Washington Crossing the Delaware: From History to American Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!What does a freezing December night in 1776 have in common with an 1851 art blockbuster and a 19...
3 Okt 19min
The Declaration of Independence: Treason, Politics and Paradox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Signing the Declaration of Independence was legally an act of high treason, punishable by hangin...
3 Okt 22min
Henry Knox: Bookseller, Artillery Chief and Flawed Founder
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Knox rose from a nine-year-old school dropout working in a Boston bookstore to Washington'...
3 Okt 24min
Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery to Boston
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the winter of 1775, the survival of the Continental Army was handed to a 25-year-old Boston b...
3 Okt 20min
Haym Salomon: The Spy and Financier Who Funded the Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Haym Salomon was sentenced to death as a British spy, escaped, and then poured his fortune into ...
3 Okt 25min
