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Independence 250March 1775 - The (Tense) Last Days of PeaceIt's March 6th, 1775. American Independence is 486 days away. On an unseasonably warm day in Boston that feels like an early dawn of spring, hundreds of citizens have crowded inside the Old South Meeting House, with thousands more gathering outside. The crowd has come together to witness a set of orations to honor the anniversary and victims of the famous Boston Massacre, which happened five year and 1 day earlier. Around 11:00 am, as the crowd waited in impatient silence for the memorial to begin, a carriage approaches carrying a man dressed in attire that...
2025-03-1746 min
SNAFUBARGeorge Washington: The French Empire Strikes BackWelcome back to SNAFUBAR!Over the course of each episode, SNAFUBAR will look at stories from military history and particular moments of U.S. military blunders with added context that can be used by and is accessible to a wide range of audiences. The histories we will look at will make clear the degree to which the U.S. is a warful nation, contrary to the myth of a peaceful nation forced into combat. And we’ll try to clarify the degree to which we romanticize and fetishize the military while not really providing the support that se...
2025-03-1552 minSNAFUBARGeorge Washington: The First Major SNAFUWelcome back to SNAFUBAR!Over the course of each episode, SNAFUBAR will look at stories from military history and particular moments of U.S. military blunders with added context that can be used by and is accessible to a wide range of audiences. The histories we will look at will make clear the degree to which the U.S. is a warful nation, contrary to the myth of a peaceful nation forced into combat. And we’ll try to clarify the degree to which we romanticize and fetishize the military while not really providing the support that se...
2025-03-0940 minSNAFUBARGeorge Washington: The Early YearsWelcome to the first episode of SNAFUBAR! Over the course of each episode, SNAFUBAR will look at stories from military history and particular moments of U.S. military blunders with added context that can be used by and is accessible to a wide range of audiences. The histories we will look at will make clear the degree to which the U.S. is a warful nation, contrary to the myth of a peaceful nation forced into combat. And we’ll try to clarify the degree to which we romanticize and fetishize the military while not really providing th...
2025-03-0240 min
American Revolution PodcastARP342 Paper Money RiotYears of issuing paper money to finance the Revolutionary War continued in the post war era. By 1786, farmers in debt wanted to continue paper money policies that would make it easier to pay their debts. Merchant creditors opposed these policies. States that failed to address these demands often found themselves facing rioters who wanted to shut down the government.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more resources related to this week's episode.Book Recommendation of the Week: Unruly Americans and the Origins of th...
2025-02-0931 minIndependence 250December 1774 and January 1775 - The Gunpowder PlotsIt's December 8th, 1774. American Independence is 574 days away. In the town of Providence, Rhode Island a local newspaper called the Providence Gazette has just published news of an order given by King George III to his Privy Council back on October 19th. The intention of the order was clear: the British King was cutting off all imports of gunpowder, arms, and ammunition to America. As news of this order quickly spread across the colonies. It set off a chain reaction of events that would cascade like a serie...
2025-01-1530 minIndependence 250December 1774 - The Chessboard NegotiationsIt's December 25th, 1774. American Independence is 557 days away. On Christmas Day in London, a man almost 70 years old and a woman nearly 20 years younger than him celebrate the holiday by sitting down to play a game of chess. The woman is named Caroline Howe, and she is the sister of two of Britain's most famous politicians and military leaders, Richard and William Howe, while man across from Caroline happens to be none other than Benjamin Franklin. The game the pair played, which was part of a series of...
2024-12-1836 min
The Culture Show PodcastDecember 2, 2024 - Jeff Hiller, the Concord Museum's Holiday House Tour, and Catherine AllgorHBO’s “Somebody Somewhere,” drops us into Manhattan, Kansas where we meet Sam, a woman who has recently moved back to her hometown to care for her dying sister, and Joel, a colleague at her new workplace who, she learns, was in the high school choir with her. The Peabody Award-winning series is wrapping up with its last episode streaming on HBO December 8th. Actor Jeff Hiller, who stars as Joel Anderson, joins The Culture Show to talk about this beloved series.From there Lisa Krassner, Executive Director of the Concord Museum. joins The Culture Show, to talk abo...
2024-12-0249 minIndependence 250October 1774 - Closing Congress and Opening DividesIt's October 20, 1774. American Independence is 623 days away. As the First Continental Congress draws to a close in Philadelphia, 53 out of the 56 members of the Congress put their signature on a document that represents the culmination of two months worth of intense deliberation and debates. The document they signed, known by history as the Articles of Association, would eventually be looked back upon 93 years later by Abraham Lincoln in his first Inaugural Address as the true moment that the America Union was first born. This month’s episode picks up where September left o...
2024-10-2139 min
Revolution 250 PodcastMassachusetts vs. Virginia, with Bob Gross and Woody HoltonWas it the embattled farmers and Sons of Liberty, or the indebted planters shouting "Give me Liberty or give me Death!" that brought on the Revolution? Who held the first Provincial Convention or Congress? Who was first to resist the Crown's troops? Join us for a debate between Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and their World, and Woody Holton, author of Forced Founders, and hear what lead these two very different places to revolution. Moderated by the ever-impartial Robert Allison.Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!
2024-10-0843 minIndependence 250September 1774 - Dress Rehearsal for RevolutionIt's September 1st, 1774. American Independence is 672 days away. While representatives from 12 of the 13 American colonies are about to convene in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress, urgent rumors have begun to spread across New England. Word has risen up that Boston is under attack, and before the next day is over, thousands of minutemen will take up their muskets and head off to fight in a war that might not have actually begun. In our episode this month we’ll split time between Philadelphia and New England, looking at how the dram...
2024-09-1941 min
Unsung HistoryAbigail AdamsAbigail Smith Adams, wife to the second U.S. president and mother of the sixth U.S. president, may be best known for exhorting her husband to “remember the ladies” as he worked with his colleagues to form a new government, but that was just one of her many strongly-held political views. Adams, who lacked formed education and whose legal status was subsumed under that of her husband, never stopped arguing for greater educational opportunities and legal rights for women. Because of her prolific correspondence, including more than 1,100 letters between her and John, and because the care with which her...
2024-09-0253 minIndependence 250August 1774 - A Convention, A Pen, and Mr. JeffersonIt's August 1st, 1774. American Independence is 703 days away. In this month’s episode we are going leave Boston and travel to the colony of Virginia, where members of the dissolved Virginia House of Burgesses have gathered in Williamsburg in defiance of their Royal Governor. The convention was a chance for some of the most prominent political minds in the colony to express their own unique grievance against King George and his Government. But what the convention would become most famous for would be thrusting into the spotlight a man who wasn’t actu...
2024-08-2335 minIndependence 250July 1774 - Becoming Like BostonIt’s July 4th, 1774. American Independence is 731 Days away. The first official episode in our series begins exactly two years before the American colonies will declare their independence from Great Britian. In the small New York village of Orangetown a group of concerned citizens gathered at the home of a local tavern keeper named Yoast Mabie. These men gathered to express their opposition to the policies passed down by Parliament in the wake for the Boston tea party, but independence was still far from their minds. Instead, they were looking for a wa...
2024-07-2934 minIndependence 250June 1688 - The Glorious Revolution (Prelude 1) It’s June 10th, 1688. American Independence is 32,165 days away. Our series starts way back, almost 100 years before Independence way ever conceived of as an idea in the American colonies. In 1688 turmoil and religious tension set Englishmen on both sides of the Atlantic in conflict with their Royal Government, and unknowingly planted the seeds of conflict with the king that would eventually grow into the American Revolution. This is the 1st of 3 prelude episodes setting the stage for our series. Key Sources: Rebellion: The History o...
2024-07-1838 minIndependence 250July 1754 - The Seven Years War (Prelude 2)It’s July 3rd, 1754. American Independence is 8,037. For our second prelude episode we take a look at the war that shaped the destiny of the American Colonies more than other conflict – the French and Indian War. What begins as a series of disasters for British and Colonial forces eventually turns into a triumphant victory, but one that came at a cost nobody could foresee. This is the 2nd of 3 Prelude Episodes setting the stage for our series. Key Sources: The War That Made America: A Short Hi...
2024-07-1837 minIndependence 250September 1761 - The King and the Crisis (Prelude 3)It's September 22, 1761. American Independence is 5,399 days away. For our final prelude episode, we are telling a breakup story. When King George III ascended to the throne of Great Britain, his reign began with a honeymoon period where he was adored by his subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. But as storm clouds gathered on the horizon, the relationship between the King and his subjects in America became increasingly strained, all leading to the eventual legacy of King George III as the King who lost an Empire. This is our 3rd and...
2024-07-1832 min
Scene on RadioS7 E5: A New Thing in Human HistoryAn age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate research lab – leads to a surge in material wealth like the world has never seen. How does a new nation, the United States, overtake its parent as the leader of the surging capitalist order? And what does it all mean in the lives of ordinary people? By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Woody Holton, Robin Alario, Edward Baptist, and Brad DeLong. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Jo...
2024-07-1750 min
Cardinal News 250Ep 4: Forgotten FoundersIt’s not that our commonly-referred to “founding fathers” were unimportant. It’s just that many other people helped move the colonies toward independence. Women, Native Americans and enslaved people were critical to the effort. Author, professor and historian Woody Holton has written extensively on this and joins Cardinal News 250 host Dutchie Jessee to talk about our nation’s “forgotten founders.”
2024-06-1133 min
History in FocusTeaching Historiography + Chilling AffectsProducer Matt Hermane speaks with Agnieszka Aya Marczyk, Abby Reisman, and Brenda Santos about their #AHRSyllabus piece “Teaching Historiography: Testimony and the Study of the Holocaust.” Then Conor Howard hears from Woody Holton on his article “Chilling Affects: Newly Troubled about Triggering, the Far Right Takes Aim at Black History.”
2024-04-0330 min
Ben Franklin's World380 The Tory's WifeThe American Revolution was a movement that divided British Americans. Americans did not universally agree on the Revolution’s ideas about governance and independence. And the movement’s War for Independence was a bloody civil war that not only pitted brother against brother and fathers against sons; it also pitted wives against husbands.Cynthia A. Kierner is a professor of history at George Mason University and the author of the book The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America. Cindy joins us to lead us through the story of Jane and Wi...
2024-03-191h 06
Civil Liberties Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio ShowThe Truth Behind the Myth of the American RevolutionIt’s the bedrock of who we are today. But to believe there was agreement among the “Founding Fathers,” that they aimed to to replace plutocracy with democracy is just wrong. In this lively interview, historian Woody Holton reveals fascinating little-known
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2024-03-0759 minFreedom Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio ShowThe Truth Behind the Myth of the American RevolutionIt’s the bedrock of who we are today. But to believe there was agreement among the “Founding Fathers,” that they aimed to to replace plutocracy with democracy is just wrong. In this lively interview, historian Woody Holton reveals fascinating little-known
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2024-03-0759 minRacism Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio ShowThe Truth Behind the Myth of the American RevolutionIt’s the bedrock of who we are today. But to believe there was agreement among the “Founding Fathers,” that they aimed to to replace plutocracy with democracy is just wrong. In this lively interview, historian Woody Holton reveals fascinating little-known
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2024-03-0759 minHistory That Matters Now Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio ShowThe Truth Behind the Myth of the American RevolutionIt’s the bedrock of who we are today. But to believe there was agreement among the “Founding Fathers,” that they aimed to to replace plutocracy with democracy is just wrong. In this lively interview, historian Woody Holton reveals fascinating little-known
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2024-03-0759 min
A New York Minute In HistoryPlymouth Freeman and Unfinished Revolutions | A New York Minute in HistoryOn this month’s episode, Devin and Lauren explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and discuss how disenfranchised communities have harkened back to the promises outlined in the Declaration of Independence as a strategy for inclusion in those foundational principles of freedom and equality.
Marker of Focus: Plymouth Freeman, Madison County
Guests: Donna Wassall and Karen Christensen of the Fayetteville-Owahgena Chapter DAR, Paul and Mary Liz Stewart from the Underground Railroad Education Center, New York State Museum’s Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Lema...
2023-12-2729 min
A New York Minute In HistoryPlymouth Freeman and Unfinished Revolutions | A New York Minute in HistoryOn this month’s episode, Devin and Lauren explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and discuss how disenfranchised communities have harkened back to the promises outlined in the Declaration of Independence as a strategy for inclusion in those foundational principles of freedom and equality.
Marker of Focus: Plymouth Freeman, Madison County
Guests: Donna Wassall and Karen Christensen of the Fayetteville-Owahgena Chapter DAR, Paul and Mary Liz Stewart from the Underground Railroad Education Center, New York State Museum’s Chief Curator Dr. Jennifer Lema...
2023-12-2729 min
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcastMason & Dixon: Chapters 31-35We had quite a lot to discuss in these chapters, so prepare for a longer than usual episode. The brutality and senselessness of the Paxton boys (and American colonialism in general), talking watches that shapeshift into vegetables, westward expansion and the impact of capitalistic real estate, and so much more.We invite you to share your thoughts with us about the book, these chapters, or anything else we discussed so we can bring it up in a future episode. We can be reached at any of the social media links below.Regarding the discussion about...
2023-07-072h 43
Book Fare: Book Club Fun, Wholesome Recommendations, Deep Discussions68-The Best July 4th Books for Every Age! Celebrate with Stories for Toddlers to Adults!Today we have got your whole family covered - from lap listeners to your grandpa and everyone in between! There are books in every shape and size to lean into the many stories of America as we approach Independence Day. Dive in and enjoy!
Books mentioned in this episode:
Picture Books:
John, Paul, George, and Ben by Lane Smith
The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
We the People: The Constitution of the United States by Peter Spier
Unspoken by Henry Cole
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2023-06-2140 min
The Soho Forum DebatesDoes The 1619 Project Have Anything To Teach Us?Woody Holton, a professor of history at the University of South Carolina, and Phillip Magness, director of research and education at the American Institute for Economic Research, debate the resolution, "The New York Times book The 1619 Project, and the Hulu video series based on it, are important contributions to our understanding of slavery and the role of African Americans in American history."
The debate was held at New York City's Sheen Center and hosted by The Soho Forum, which receives fiscal sponsorship from Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason.
Taking the affirmative was Holton, w...
2023-04-211h 42
Ben Franklin's World355 The Virginia VentureOn April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately-funded, joint-stock company established the first, permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. What work did the Virginia Company have to do to establish this colony? How much money did it have to raise, and from whom did it raise this money, to support its colonial venture?Misha Ewen, a Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Bristol and a...
2023-04-1155 min
Sarah's Bookshelves LiveEp. 135: William Landay (Author of All That Is Mine I Carry With Me) + Book RecommendationsIn episode 135, author William Landay discusses his latest novel, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me, while also sharing his background as a prosecutor and how he incorporates family drama into his crime novels. William shares a couple elements of his book that changed throughout the writing process (including how it was almost meta fiction!). We also chat about how the court of public opinion shapes the idea of doubt in his book and how the different perspectives play a role in creating suspense. Plus, William gives us his book recommendations! This post contains af...
2023-03-2251 min
New Books in Native American StudiesWoody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2021) is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” pri...
2023-03-2149 min
New Books in Women's HistoryWoody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2021) is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” pri...
2023-03-2153 min
New Books in Military HistoryWoody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2021) is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” pri...
2023-03-2153 min
New Books in African American StudiesWoody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2021) is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” pri...
2023-03-2153 min
New Books in British StudiesWoody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2021) is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” pri...
2023-03-2153 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryWoody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon and Schuster, 2021) is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” pri...
2023-03-2153 min
War BooksAmerican Revolution - Native Americans, African-Americans, and Women - Woody HoltonEp 005 - Nonfiction. My discussion with Woody Holton about his book, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution." Wow, did you know there was an 'emancipation proclamation' issued long before Lincoln? I didn't, and I learned so much. Woody was fascinating to talk to, and his research of the ‘overlooked people’ of the revolution was incredible. You can buy Woody’s book here: https://bit.ly/3lgH7g2Subscribe to the War Books podcast here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@warbookspodcastApple: http://bit.ly/3ZCL0duSpo...
2023-03-1649 min
IPPH On AirEpisode II of Founding Fathers Legacy Series (James Madison) – Revolutionary AmericaIn episode two of the Founding Fathers' Legacy Series, Former Washington D.C Mayor Sharon Pratt examines the world of revolutionary America, learning more about the political, social, and economic environment the Founding Fathers operated in. Sharon Pratt speaks with Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky, a presidential historian and award-winning author of "The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution" about the early, unsettling period for our new nation, the competing ideas and symbolic importance of the new nation's capital. She also speaks with Dr. Woody Holton, the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South...
2023-02-0148 min
Scene on Radio"The Excess of Democracy": RebroadcastIn the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation. But why, exactly? What problems were the framers trying to solve? Was the Constitution designed to advance democracy, or to rein it in? And how can the answers to those questions inform our crises of democracy today?
By producer/host John Biewen with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Woody Holton, Dan Bullen, and Price Thomas. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
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2022-08-1051 min
Well That Aged WellEpisode 82: The American Revolution. With Woody HoltonThis week we take a look at The American Revolution. From the beginning with The British Stamp Act to the Revolution to the founding of a Nation. This week on "Well That Aged Well". With "Erlend HedegartSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-06-161h 05
ChatterThe Movie "Casablanca" in Myth and Reality with Meredith HindleyThis week marks the 80th anniversary of the start of principal photography on Casablanca, the 1942 film that would win Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Philip Epstein, Julius Epstein, and Howard Koch). Often ranked by critics and the general public in the top five films of all time, Casablanca was first screened just as the city in French Morocco was hitting headlines because of the Allies' Operation TORCH invasion of North Africa during World War II.To talk about the movie, the city's wartime history, and the veracity of...
2022-05-261h 10
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrongMyth of the Month 16: The Founding FathersUnlocked for the public after 1 year on Patreon for patrons only:
The "Founding Fathers" -- the most rarefied club in American history -- stand in for everything we love or hate about this country, from its civic and religious freedom to its white supremacism. As if carved in stone (which they oftentimes are), they loom over every political debate, even though most of us know next to nothing about them, or even who counts as one of the group. Coined by that immortal wordsmith, President Warren Harding, the phrase "Founding Fathers" serves as an empty vessel for civic emotion, conveniently...
2022-04-011h 57
Walter Edgar's JournalLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionTroops wearing the Revolutionary War uniforms of the 9th Virginia Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, participate in a drill and firing demonstration during the Cessation of Hostilities Bicentennial Celebration at the Pentagon River Plaza. The flag of the ceremonial 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, is carried in the background.(Sanborn / U. S. National Archive)(Originally broadcast 11/12/21) - In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Na...
2022-03-3152 min
Walter Edgar's JournalLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionTroops wearing the Revolutionary War uniforms of the 9th Virginia Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, participate in a drill and firing demonstration during the Cessation of Hostilities Bicentennial Celebration at the Pentagon River Plaza. The flag of the ceremonial 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, is carried in the background.(Sanborn / U. S. National Archive)(Originally broadcast 11/12/21) - In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Na...
2022-03-3152 min
Ben Franklin's World325 Everyday People of the American RevolutionWhat 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....
2022-03-291h 18
History Ago GoLiberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Woody Holton)Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. “It is all one story,” prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes.Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans—enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters—and on overloo...
2022-02-1459 min
Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American RevolutionE145: Woody Holton: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionThis week our guest is author and historian Woody Holton. In this sweeping analysis of the Revolutionary Era, Holton proposes bold new interpretations of America’s founding era. For more information visit www.allthingsliberty.com
2021-12-1247 min
Live at the National Constitution CenterNative Americans and the ConstitutionIn celebration of Native American Heritage Month, join experts Maggie Blackhawk of New York University School of Law; Donald Grinde, Jr. of the University at Buffalo and co-author of Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy; Gregory Dowd of the University of Michigan; and Woody Holton of the University of South Carolina and author of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, for a conversation exploring the influence of indigenous people and tribal governments on the U.S. Constitution and American democracy, from before the Revolution to today. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the Nation...
2021-11-2452 minWalter Edgar's JournalLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionTroops wearing the Revolutionary War uniforms of the 9th Virginia Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, participate in a drill and firing demonstration during the Cessation of Hostilities Bicentennial Celebration at the Pentagon River Plaza. The flag of the ceremonial 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, is carried in the background.(Sanborn / U. S. National Archive)In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Am...
2021-11-0851 minWalter Edgar's JournalLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionTroops wearing the Revolutionary War uniforms of the 9th Virginia Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, participate in a drill and firing demonstration during the Cessation of Hostilities Bicentennial Celebration at the Pentagon River Plaza. The flag of the ceremonial 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, Corps of the Continental Line, is carried in the background.(Sanborn / U. S. National Archive)In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Am...
2021-11-082h 57Revolution 250 Podcast"Liberty is Sweet" - Woody HoltonThe history of the American Revolution is often simplified for easier digestion by the American public, but it is a complex and shifting story that can be viewed from thousands of different perspectives. Woody Holton, author of Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution joins us to talk about some of these different perspectives in the complex story. Holton , the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, focuses on economic history, as well as the stories of Native Americans, African-Americans, and women in the Revolutionary era. His biography Abigail Adams: A Life received the Ba...
2021-10-2632 min
Explore: This Spellbinding Full Audiobook For Knowledge Hunters.Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511777to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
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Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 22 hours 29 minutes
Release date: October 19, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radical...
2021-10-1910h 29Don’t Miss Into A Eye-Opening Full Audiobook Right Now.Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511777to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 22 hours 29 minutes
Release date: October 19, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The...
2021-10-1910h 29Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, The AmericasLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511777to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 22 hours 29 minutes
Release date: October 19, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The...
2021-10-1910h 29
Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, The AmericasLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody HoltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution Author: Woody Holton Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author...
2021-10-1903 min
The Ezra Klein ShowThe Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught in SchoolThere are few periods of U.S. history that are as vigorously debated, as emotionally and civically charged as the American Revolution. And for good reason: How Americans interpret that period — its heroes, its villains, its legacy — shapes how we understand our social foundations, our national identity, our shared political project.Woody Holton is a historian at the University of South Carolina, a leading scholar of America’s founding and the author of numerous books on the period, including, most recently, “Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution.”Holton’s work presents a fundamenta...
2021-10-1956 minGrab the Top Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511777to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 22 hours 29 minutes
Release date: October 19, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radical...
2021-10-1910h 29
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in History, MilitaryLiberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution by Woody HoltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution Author: Woody Holton Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 19, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The...
2021-10-1903 min
American Revolution PodcastARP222 Congress 1779 - Mo Money, Mo ProblemsThe Continental Congress uses 1779 to debate the terms of a peace treaty or compensation for the army. They have difficulty reaching any consensus. At the same time, Congress continues to emit paper Continental dollars which no one wants to accept. The ensuing inflation threatens to bring down the economy and the war effort.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcastBook Recommendations of the Week: Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revol...
2021-10-1733 min
The Stacking Benjamins ShowAbigail Adams: Financial Badass (SB RWD 120)Just a few more days until the new year! We're keeping our countdown going strong with one of America's original big-time investors: Abigail Adams. You can read our original show notes below: As Women’s History Month draws to a close we suddenly realize….we’ve done nothing to celebrate! Today on the show we make up for that (‘in spades,” as mom says) by inviting down to the basement professor Woody Holton, author of the book Abigail Adams, for which he won the Bambridge Award and more. He’ll describe the amazing prowess of Adams in a time when...
2020-12-291h 00
Revolutionary America at UNCRevolutionary America, Woody Holton 71-95Ben Rosen and Izzy Forster dig into the Woody Holton book, Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era, and what happened to African-Americans after the Revolutionary War! Come check it out!
2020-10-2112 minRevolutionary America at UNCEpisode 11: Woody Holton Introduction, Part 1, and Part 2Analyzing documents from African Americans during the Revolution.
2020-10-2010 min
He Read She ReadEpisode 54: Revolutionary Reads for Hamilton fans and reflective readersToday we’re checking in with a reading goal update, sharing short book reviews, and offering several recommendations for Revolutionary Reads. Plus, Chelsey catches a golden phrase on audio and Curtis reminisces about Star Wars. Show notes: http://hereadsheread.org/ Our newsletter: https://hereadsheread.substack.com/ 2 Audiobooks for the price of 1! Support independent bookstores and sign up for Libro.fm here Email us here Follow us here Hamilton on Disney+ The End is Always Near by Dan Carlin Take...
2020-07-2133 min
52 Book ChallengeThe First Second Lady/Second First LadyYou may remember Abigail Adams from your history class as the former first lady who wrote to her husband, "remember the ladies.." as he drafted the Declaration of Independence. But did you know she broke societal norms by drafting her own will? That she advised her husband on political matters? Abigail Adams by Woody Holton is a biography of our often misunderstood first second lady and second first lady. In this episode, I'll talk about this fascinating book and also give a recommendation of an award-winning TV series to watch while you read. --- This episode is sponsored b...
2020-06-3013 min
Novel PairingsBuzzy Summer Books and backlist titles to read while you wait on your library holdsToday Chelsey and Sara are toppling your TBRs with backlist books to enjoy this summer. We know hardback books are pricey and library waitlists for the hottest new releases are long, so we’re going to be pairing some of 2020’s most exciting books of summer with older books that are easier to get your hands on. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/novelpairingspod/ Shop our Backlist Recs on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/buzzy-summer-books-and-backlist-favorites Use our referral code to get TWO audiobooks for the price of one through Libro.fm: https...
2020-06-3056 min
Joe Public SpeakingJoe Public Speaking, Anything Goes Wednesday, Episode 1: Unruly Americans and the Woody Holton interviewHost: Tom JacksonInterviewee: Professor Woody Holton, author of "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_HoltonMusic: "Here Comes the Shutdown", Kevin Healey: khealey.bandcamp.com--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tom-jackson2/support
2020-04-2345 minScene on RadioS4 E2: "The Excess of Democracy"In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation. But why, exactly? What problems were the framers trying to solve? Was the Constitution designed to advance democracy, or to rein it in?
By producer/host John Biewen with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Woody Holton, Dan Bullen, and Price Thomas. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Jo...
2020-01-2246 minScene on RadioS4 E1: Rich Man's RevoltIn the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was it, anyway? Was it about a desire to establish democracy—or something else?
By producer/host John Biewen with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Davy Arch, Barbara Duncan, Rob Shenk, and Woody Holton. Edited by Loretta Williams.
Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.
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2020-01-0845 min
Ben Franklin's World269 BFW Team Favorites: One Colonial Woman's WorldWhat was everyday life like for average men and women in early America? Listeners ask this question more than any other question and today we continue to try to answer it. Michelle Marchetti Coughlin, author of One Colonial Woman's World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit, joins us to explore the life of an average woman who lived in early New England. This episode originally posted as Episode 032. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/269 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute The Ben Franklin's World Shop Complementary Episodes Episode 022: V...
2019-12-1747 min
Ben Franklin's World265 An Early History of the White HouseOn July 1, 1790, Congress passed “An Act for Establishing the temporary and permanent Seat of the Government of the United States.” This act formalized a plan to move the capital of the United States from New York City to Philadelphia, for a period of 10 years, and then from Philadelphia to Washington D.C., where the United States government would make its permanent home. What buildings did Congress have erected to house the government? Lindsay Chervinsky works for the White House Historical Association as the White House Historian and she joins us to explore the history of one...
2019-11-191h 02
Ben Franklin's World258 John Dickinson: Life, Religion, and PoliticsThe Second Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 with 12 colonies and one abstention. The delegation from New York abstained from the vote. And Pennsylvania voted in favor of independence because two of its delegates were persuaded not to attend the vote given their opposition. John Dickinson was one of the two delegates who absented himself from the vote. Later, he would refuse to sign the Declaration of Independence. But why?
Jane Calvert, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and the Director/Editor of The John Dickinson Writings Project, joins us to...
2019-10-011h 02
Ben Franklin's World253 Life and Revolution in Boston and GrenadaWhat can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America? What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about life in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions? These are questions Susan Clair Imbarrato, a Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, set out to answer as she explored an amazing trove of letters to and from a woman named Sarah Gray Cary.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/253 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute The Ben Franklin's World Shop Complementary Episodes Episode 110: Joshua Taylor, How...
2019-08-2746 min
Ben Franklin's World249 BFW Road Trip: James Monroe's HighlandBetween 1789 and 1825, five men would serve as President of the United States. Four of them hailed from Virginia. Many of us know details about the lives and presidencies of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. But what do we know about the life and presidency of the fourth Virginia president, James Monroe? Sara Bon-Harper, Executive Director of James Monroe’s Highland, joins us to explore the public and private life of James Monroe. This episode originally posted as Episode103. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/249 Sponsor Links Om...
2019-07-3048 min
Ben Franklin's World237 Motherhood in Early AmericaMother’s Day became a national holiday on May 9, 1914 to honor all of the work mothers do to raise children. But what precisely is the work that mothers do to raise children? Has the nature of mothers, motherhood, and the work mothers do changed over time? Nora Doyle, an Assistant Professor of History at Salem College in North Carolina, has combed through the historical record to find answers to these questions. Specifically, she’s sought to better understand the lived and imagined experiences of mothers and motherhood between the 1750s and 1850s. Show Note...
2019-05-0756 min
Leadership and Legacy: Conversations at the George Washington Presidential Library100. Remember The Ladies!In this episode, Dr. Kevin C. Butterfield sits down with Dr. Woody Holton to discuss the 10th anniversary of his Bancroft Prize winning book, Abigail Adams. For more information check out our website at www.mountvernon.org/podcast.
2019-03-2835 min
Ben Franklin's World231 The Religious Lives of the Adams FamilyHistorians use archives to create the histories we love to read, watch, and listen to. So we’re going into one archive to investigate how historians use them and to discover more about the religious lives of the Adams Family. Sara Georgini, Series Editor of The Papers of John Adams, invites us to join her inside the Massachusetts Historical Society so we can take a closer look at the historical details provided by the Adams Papers and the role these manuscripts played in helping her write her book, Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family....
2019-03-261h 04
Press Play On The Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook Now, Busy Professionals!Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374228to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Release date: March 12, 2019
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape...
2019-03-127h 31Discover the Best Audio Stories in History, The AmericasForced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374228to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Release date: March 12, 2019
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape...
2019-03-127h 31
Discover the Best Audio Stories in History, The AmericasForced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia by Woody HoltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/374228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia Author: Woody Holton Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 12, 2019 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to...
2019-03-1230 min
Press Play On The Most Vivid Full Audiobook Today!Forced Founders by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/215651to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Forced Founders
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs
Release date: 03-12-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 29 ratings
Genres: Revolution & Founding
Publisher's Summary:
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.
2019-03-1230 min
Civics 101Founding Documents: Bill of RightsThe Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to our Constitution. Why do we have one? What does it 'do'? And what does it really, really do?
Our guests are Linda Monk, Alvin Tillery, David O. Stewart, Woody Holton, David Bobb, and Chuck Taft. Visit our website, civics101podcast.org, where you can get Chuck's wonderful Bill of Rights SURVIVOR lesson plan, along with our favorite Bill of Rights resources.
Each Amendment could be (and has been) its own episode. Except maybe the Third Amendment. So if you don't know them by heart, take...
2019-02-2623 min
Civics 101Founding Documents: Declaration of IndependenceAmerica declared independence on July 2, 1776. But two days later it adopted this radical, revolutionary, inclusive, exclusive, secessionist, compromising, hypocritical, inspirational document. What does it say? What does it ignore?
This episode features many scholars with differing opinions on the Declaration: Danielle Allen, Byron Williams, Cheryl Cook-Kallio, Woody Holton, and Emma Bray.
CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more!To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah Mc...
2019-01-2926 min
Ben Franklin's World216 A History of Stepfamilies in Early AmericaWhat do George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They all grew-up in blended or stepfamilies. Lisa Wilson, the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History at Connecticut College and author of A History of Stepfamilies in Early America, takes us through the creation and interactions of blended and stepfamilies in early America. This episode originally posted as Episode 027. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/216 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute Chicago 2019 Meetup Complementary Episodes Episode 150: Woody Holton, Abigail Adams Episode 175: Dan...
2018-12-1145 min
Ben Franklin's World209 Considering BiographyBiography. Since the earliest days of the United States, and even before the thirteen colonies came together to forge a nation, Americans have been interested in biography. But why? What is it about the lives of others that makes the past so interesting and fun to explore? This episode marks the start of the Omohundro Institute’s 4-episode Doing History series about biography. This series will take us behind-the-scenes of biography and how historians and biographers reconstruct the lives of people from the past. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/209 A...
2018-10-231h 37
Ben Franklin's World205 First Ladies of the RepublicLa Presidente? The Presidentess? The First Lady of the Land? The Second Article of the United States Constitution defines the Executive Branch of the government, the powers it has, and the role of the chief executive, the President of the United States. But what about the position of the President’s spouse? Jeanne Abrams, a Professor at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver, joins us to explore the lives and work of the first First Ladies of the American Republic with details from her book, First Ladies of...
2018-09-2554 min
Ben Franklin's World193 Partisans: The Friends and Rivalry of Adams and JeffersonJohn Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Two drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, two diplomats who served the United States abroad in Europe, and two men who went on to serve as vice president and president of the United States. Both men left indelible marks on American society. Adams and Jefferson are two founders who captivate the attention of and greatly interest Americans today, so in honor of the 242nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the 192nd anniversary of their deaths, we will explore their lives and relationship. Barbara Oberg and Sara...
2018-07-031h 24
Ben Franklin's World150 Abigail Adams, Revolutionary SpeculatorAbigail Adams lived through and participated in the American Revolution. As the wife of John Adams, she used her position to famously remind Adams and his colleagues to "remember the ladies" when they created laws for the new, independent United States. In this episode, Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and author of Abigail Adams: A Life, helps us explore a different, largely unknown aspect of Adams' life: Her financial investments. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/150 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute of Early American Hi...
2017-09-051h 02
Your Weekly ConstitutionalUnruly AmericansIn this extraordinary election year of 2016 we keep hearing a lot of dark references to “populism” on both the left and the right. But what does “populism” mean, and why does it have such a negative connotation? Aren’t we a popular democracy? And isn’t democracy good?Woody Holton, a University of South Carolina history professor, thinks that democracy is, in fact, a good thing - at least sometimes. He’s even written a book about it: "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution."Woody’s story contrasts with the history you probably learned in high school...
2016-04-1454 minYour Weekly ConstitutionalUnruly AmericansIn this extraordinary election year of 2016 we keep hearing a lot of dark references to “populism” on both the left and the right. But what does “populism” mean, and why does it have such a negative connotation? Aren’t we a popular democracy? And isn’t democracy good?Woody Holton, a University of South Carolina history professor, thinks that democracy is, in fact, a good thing - at least sometimes. He’s even written a book about it: "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution."Woody’s story contrasts with the history you probably learned in high school...
2016-04-1454 min
The JuntoCast: A Podcast on Early American HistoryExtra!, Ep. 1: The "Originality Crisis" in American Revolution ScholarshipKen Owen, Michael Hattem, Roy Rogers, and Liz Covart discuss a question that arose from a keynote talk by Woody Holton at the recent Massachusetts Historical Society conference on the American Revolution, i.e., "Is there an 'originality crisis' in American Revolution scholarship?"
2015-05-2521 min
Your Weekly ConstitutionalA Hundred-Year-Old BeardHmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant.Actually, the Beard in question is a person, Charles Beard, and he's dead. Hmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant, either.But it's fascinating. You see, Beard was a historian who wrote the most important book you've never heard of, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States," published precisely a century ago, in 1913.Beard's book has been causing academic fistfights since the day it was published, and that's why we're still talking about it a century later. Please join historians Woody Holton...
2013-09-2759 minYour Weekly ConstitutionalA Hundred-Year-Old BeardHmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant.Actually, the Beard in question is a person, Charles Beard, and he's dead. Hmm - that doesn't sound very pleasant, either.But it's fascinating. You see, Beard was a historian who wrote the most important book you've never heard of, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States," published precisely a century ago, in 1913.Beard's book has been causing academic fistfights since the day it was published, and that's why we're still talking about it a century later. Please join historians Woody Holton...
2013-09-2759 min
Podcasts @ BoatwrightDr. Woody Holton – Faculty Author InterviewDr. Woody Holton, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, discusses his book, Abigail Adams, an engaging biography that reinterprets Mrs. Adam’s life story and reexamines women’s roles in the creation of the republic. Published by Simon and Schuster in November … Continue reading →
2010-09-0700 min
Fuel Your Mind With A Mind-Blowing Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Abigail Adams by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118058to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Abigail Adams
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2009
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of Adams's life, and along the way, Woody Holton, a renowned historian of the American Revolution, takes on numerous myths about the men and women of the founding era. But the book also demonstrates that domestic dramas—from unplanned pregnancies to untimely deaths—could be just as h...
2009-11-237h 30Listen To The Full Audiobook That Keeps Busy Professionals Hooked.Abigail Adams by Woody HoltonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118058to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Abigail Adams
Author: Woody Holton
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 19 hours 30 minutes
Release date: November 23, 2009
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of Adams's life, and along the way, Woody Holton, a renowned historian of the American Revolution, takes on numerous myths about the men and women of the founding era. But the book also demonstrates that domestic dramas—from unplanned pregnancies to untimely deaths—could be just as hear...
2009-11-237h 30
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasAbigail Adams by Woody HoltonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/118058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abigail Adams Author: Woody Holton Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 23, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of Adams's life, and along the way, Woody Holton, a renowned historian of the American Revolution, takes on numerous myths about the men and women of the founding era. But the book also demonstrates that domestic dramas—from unplanned pregnancies to untimely deaths—could be just...
2009-11-2303 min