Revolution 250 Podcast

The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale & Moses Dunbar, with Virginia DeJohn Anderson

August 31, 2021 Virginia DeJohn Anderson Season 2 Episode 36
Revolution 250 Podcast
The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale & Moses Dunbar, with Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Show Notes

 Virginia DeJohn Anderson (University of Colorado) eminent scholar of life in Colonial America and most recently the author of The Martyr and the Traitor:  Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution talks with us about these two men from Connecticut, both hanged in the first year of the War--Hale hanged by the British as a spy, Dunbar hanged in Connecticut as a loyalist.  What lead each one his particular path?  What do their stories tell us about the Revolution?