The Stamp Act
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. As I said at the end of last week’s show, the story of the American Revolution begins with the end of the French and Indian War in 1763. Now, that does not mean that it was all downhill from there, and there were a number of different points along the […]
The New World
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Okay, welcome back to the show. We are now, as you know, jumping a 100 years forward and 3,000 miles to the left to play out the tumultuous drama of the American Revolution. A tumultuous drama that occasionally parallels and sometimes even explicitly recalls the tumultuous drama of the English […]
The Armies
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So this section was originally supposed to be a part of Episode 5 – Cavaliers and Roundheads, but it just kept growing, started to sidetrack the narrative, and had I let it go on like that, we never would have gotten anywhere, so I pulled it out and created this […]