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
Episodes
212 episodes since 2020
1774: The Year the Empire Struck Back!
The Sons of Liberty exulted over the Boston Tea Party, but they also would have been familiar with the proverb "he who dances must pay the piper." The "piper" in this case turned out to be General Thomas Gage who arrived in Boston in May ...
September 17, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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41:01
William Prescott:Stalwart of Bunker Hill
Few images of the Battle of Bunker Hill are as evocative as Colonell William Prescott striding up and down the walls of the redoubt, his sword drawn, his banyan fluttering in the breeze as the British regiments marched up the hill. The st...
September 10, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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45:01
Thomas Jefferson - A Man of Contradictions with Jane Kamensky
Thomas Jefferson contained multitudes. Like the nation he helped to create, Jefferson was a fascinating man of contradictions: a party leader who did not believe in political parties, an apostle of liberty who owned others, and a "m...
September 03, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 36
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40:57
Revolutionary War Shipwrecks of New Jersey with Capt. Steve Nagiewicz
The Mullica River in southern New Jersey was a haven for American privateers, who in the fall of 1778 had eighteen captured British vessels at anchor, their cargoes delivered to Washington's army. Sir Henry Clinton sent a raiding party fr...
August 27, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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40:43
"Oh That Dreadful Tea!" - the Musical
Ruthanne Paulson and Deborah Potee have created a musical, "Oh, That Dreadful Tea," designed to allow kids to experience the thrill of performing and telling the story of the Boston...
August 20, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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37:25
Marquis de Lafayette Returns, a conversation with Elizabeth Reese
2024 marks the bicentennial of the return of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States. In 1824, President James Monroe invited Lafayette, the last surviving Major General of the Revolution, to be the guest of the nation as a way to c...
August 13, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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35:29
Brooks Lyles & the Sons of the American Revolution
Since 1889 the Sons of the American Revolution have been working to preserve the memories of those who fought and supported the American Revolution. While the national headquarters is in Louisville, Kent...
August 06, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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45:02
A Brilliant Solution with Carol Berkin
In the summer of 1787, 55 delegates assembled at Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the new United States of America. The document that was finally agreed upon on September 15, 1787 was not without controversy. The complet...
July 30, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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42:47
George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring
Agents, double-agents, spies, secret messages, codes, cyphers are the words that evoke the world of intelligence gathering, a necessary tool for the success of any army. George Washington knew better than anyone the value of knowing what ...
July 23, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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36:51
The Many Rides of Paul Revere
"Listen my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." With this one line, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ensured the legacy of 18th-century Boston silversmith, mechanic and entrepreneur, Paul Revere. The poem, p...
July 16, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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48:10
The Whiskey Rebellion with Brady J. Crytzer
The "Whiskey Rebellion," as Alexander Hamilton called it, was the first major test of the new government's power to control its territory. The Whiskey Tax of 1791 taxed smaller producers of whiskey, and required all stills to be registere...
July 09, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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38:34
John Trumbull, Painter of the Revolution with Richard Brookhiser
We see him as the artist who gave us the iconic imagery of our nation's founding. He saw himself as a historian. John Trumbull, soldier, spy, and artist was the son of a Connecticut Governor, a scion of the first-families of New Eng...
July 02, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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37:20
Sarah Johnson's Mt. Vernon with Scott E. Casper
Mount Vernon's historical status was secured by George Washington's ownership, but its full history cannot be told without examining the other people who lived here. Sarah Johnson, first living enslaved at Mount Vernon and later emancipated, sa...
June 25, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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38:15
Revolutionary Blacks with Shirley Green
Ben and William Frank became part of the Second Rhode Island Regiment in 1777. AFter figinting in the Battle of Rhode Island, Ben switched sides, joined with the British, and wound up in Nova Scotia after the war. His descendant Shi...
June 18, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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38:06
The Creation of the American Republic with Gordon Wood
As we approach our 200th episode we talk with Gordon Wood on his first book,
June 11, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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38:49
By His Excellency's Command: Revolution in Salem, with Emily Murphy
June 2024 marks the 250th Anniversary of General & Governor Thomas Gage's attempt to move the Massachusetts government to Salem. Join us as we learn how this important seaport town reacted to 2 regiments of Redcoats moving into town. ...
June 04, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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45:16
The Age of Revolutions with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
The Revolution 250 tag line is that these Revolutionary moments in America are "Moments that Changed the World." Within two generations of the end of the French and Indian wars, social and political hierarchies lay in ruins across the Ame...
May 28, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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39:05
George Washington, The Man, The Myth, The General, with Edward G. Lengel
How well do we know George Washington, the man—and why have we created so many myths about him? We talk with Edward G. Lengel, award-winning author and teacher, and long-time editor-in-chief of the Washington Papers Project, about this well-kno...
May 21, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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41:23
Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia
Matthew Skic from the Museum of the American Revolution and I talk about their exhibit Black Founders:&nb...
May 14, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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40:58
Espionage & the American War for Independence
A successful military campaign requires the collection of information and the denial of like information to your enemy. George Washington at the head of a nascent army, without such skills, relied heavily upon many clever and entrepreneurial me...
May 07, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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44:09
Foreign Meddling in the Early Republic - with Tyson Reeder
Do you think partisan intrigue and accusations of foreign meddling are new things? We talk with Tyson Reeder, author of Serpent in Eden: ...
April 30, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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44:27
Worlds Turned Upside Down with Jim Ambuske
A story from the 19th century told that British soldiers marched off the surrender ground at Yorktown to the tune of "The World Turned Upside Down." Whether true or not is beside the point. The world may indeed have seem...
April 23, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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37:10
Ipswich, Massachusetts - Birthplace of American Independence?
Birthplace of American Independence--Ipswich, Massachusetts? In 1687, when King James II tried to take away the power of people in Massachusetts towns to govern themselves, Reverend John Wise of Ipswich lead the town into resistance--lead...
April 17, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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42:05
A Monument to African-Americans in the Revolution with Maurice Barboza
Congress has bestowed on National Mall Liberty Fund DC the honor of establishing a memorial in Washington’s Monumental Core to tens of thousands of African American solders, sailors, marines, patriots an...
April 09, 2024
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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36:41