325 Everyday People of the American Revolution
03/29/22 • 79 min
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What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform, and as a time of violence and upheaval?
Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, joins us to explore and discuss answers to these questions so that we can better see and understand the American Revolution as a whole event.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/325
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What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform, and as a time of violence and upheaval?
Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, joins us to explore and discuss answers to these questions so that we can better see and understand the American Revolution as a whole event.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/325
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🎧 Episode 060: David Preston, Braddock’s Defeat
🎧 Episode 128: Alan Taylor: American Revolutions: A Continental History
🎧 Episode 144: Rob Parkinson, The Common Cause
🎧 Episode 150: Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator
🎧 Episode 152: Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
🎧 Episode 181: Max Edelson, The New Map of the British Empire
🎧 Episode 294: Mary Beth Norton, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
🎧 Episode 296: Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre
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After Henry Hudson’s 1609-voyage along the river that now bears his name, Dutch traders began to visit and trade at the area they called New Netherland. In 1614, the Dutch established a trading post near present-day Albany, New York. In 1624, the Dutch West India Company built the settlement of New Amsterdam.
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