Revolution 250 Podcast
Revolution 250 is a consortium of organizations in New England planning commemorations of the American Revolution's 250th anniversary. https://revolution250.org/Through this podcast you will meet many of the people involved in these commemorations, and learn about the people who brought about the Revolution--which began here. To support Revolution 250, visit https://www.masshist.org/rev250Theme Music: "Road to Boston" fifes: Doug Quigley, Peter Emerick; Drums: Dave Emerick
Revolution 250 Podcast
African Founders with David Hackett Fischer
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David Hackett Fischer
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Season 3
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Episode 43
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, the latest work by award-winning author David Hackett Fischer, examines the interactions and intertwinings of Africans and their culture as it integrated into the European base culture that the American colonists brought from there. This majestic work illustrates how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.
Our conversation with David Fischer, Warren Professor of History emeritus at Brandeis University, ranges from race and slavery in early America to the teaching and writing of history and the future of the American republic.