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American Revolution Podcast explores the events of the American Revolution, from beginning to end. It publishes weekly. Be sure to check out the related blog for access to pictures, maps, and links to more useful information on each week’s episode. https://blog.amrevpodcast.com

Latest Episodes:

AR-SP28 Round Table Event: Tea Hysteria & Fort Wm and Mary Dec 29, 2024

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Our audio recording from our American Revolution Roundtable for December 2024. We talk about the anti-tea hysteria that swept America following the Boston Tea Party. We also discuss the New Hampshire Militia raid on Fort William and Mary in December of 1774.

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ARP337 Mount Vernon Conference Dec 22, 2024

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George Washington began what he thought would be his retirement in 1784. Following a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette that year, Washington put aside retirement to return to his lifelong dream of establishing a trade route to the west that used the Potomac River, that flowed past Mount Vernon. He got Maryland and Virginia to pass laws allowing for this, but found the implementation of such a route much more difficult than he anticipated.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West, by Robert Kapsch (borrow on archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: A New Chapter in the Early Life of Washington, In Connection with the Narrative History of the Potomac Company, by John Pickell.

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ARP336 Planning the Northwest Territory Dec 15, 2024

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The Continental Congress, eager to begin settling western lands, forces native tribes to sign the treaties of Fort Stanwix (1784), Fort McIntosh (1785) and Fort Finney (1786) to relinquish claims to large portions of land in what is today the state of Ohio. Congress passes the Land Ordinance of 1785 to define exactly how blocks of this land would be transferred to private parties, either through veterans' grants, or through sales.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Arthur Lee, A Virtuous Revolutionary, by Louis Potts (borrow on archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: The Land Ordinance of 1785: A Bicentennial Review: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27790853

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ARP335 State of Franklin Dec 08, 2024

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Frustrated by the ill treatment of the eastern establishment. Three counties in western North Carolina vote for independence and form a new state named after Benjamin Franklin. They establish a new government, naming John Sevier as governor. North Carolina is not happy.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, by Kevin Barksdale (borrow on archive.org).

Online Recommendation of the Week: History of the Lost State of Franklin, by Samuel Cole Williams: https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-EFE-229

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ARP334 Land Ordinance of 1784 Nov 17, 2024

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Congress focuses on western lands to resolve its money problems.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Ohio in the time of the Confederation: https://archive.org/details/ohiointimeofconf03hulb

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ARP333 Revolution and Slavery Nov 10, 2024

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At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson

Online Recommendation of the Week: Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts, by GH Moore: https://archive.org/details/cu31924027056039

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AR-SP27 Lord Dunmore's War Round Table Nov 03, 2024

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The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.

For more on this topic, get a copy of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era, by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions).

You can also listen to my summary of the war in Episode 44: https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/05/episode-044-lord-dunmores-war.html

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ARP332 Society of the Cincinnati Oct 27, 2024

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In 1783, General Henry Knox proposes the establishment of a private organization for Continental officers called The Society of the Cincinnati. National leaders see the new group as a threat trying to undermine freedom and self-government.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Markus Hünemörder .

Online Recommendation of the Week: Society of the Cincinnati: https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org

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ARP331 Washington Goes Home Oct 20, 2024

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In November, 1783, Washington takes leave of his officers and the army after the British Depart New York. Washington makes his way to Annapolis to resign. Congress misses the arrival of the Dutch Ambassador and scrambles to get the final peace treaty ratified while accepting Washington's resignation. Finally a civilian, Washington arrives home at Mount Vernon on Christmas Eve, 1783.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783, by Stanley Weintraub.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Washington’s Resignation Speech December 23, 1783 https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/pdf/webversion.pdf

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ARP330 Evacuation of New York Oct 13, 2024

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Although parties had established a preliminary peace treaty in 1782, the process of moving the British army and loyalist civilians out of New York took well over a year. General Guy Carleton remained concerned about leaving behind any loyalists who might suffer the wrath of their neighbors for loyalty to the crown.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Guy Carleton: A Biography, by Paul R. Reynolds

Online Recommendation of the Week: A Tory-Eye View of the Evacuation of New York, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23174025

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