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HistoryPod
19th April 1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War

HistoryPod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025


As the British troops arrived in Lexington, they encountered a small group and, although the exact events that unfolded are unclear, a shot was fired that initiated the first skirmish of the American Revolutionary ...

Historians At The Movies
Emergency Pod: America's First Action Hero- Where Is Our George Washington Biopic? with Dr. Craig Bruce Smith

Historians At The Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 73:37


Happy birthday Mr. President! Today for George Washington's birthday we invited Washington scholar Craig Bruce Smith to talk about why we still don't have a biopic of the First American, plus Craig's top five presidents ever.About our guest:Craig Bruce Smith is an associate professor of history at National Defense University in the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) in Norfolk, VA. He authored American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era and co-authored George Washington's Lessons in Ethical Leadership.Smith earned his PhD in American history from Brandeis University. Previously, he was an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), an assistant professor of history, and the director of the history program at William Woods University, and he has taught at additional colleges, including Tufts University. He specializes in American Revolutionary and early American history, specifically focusing on George Washington, honor, ethics, war, the founders, transnational ideas, and national identity. In addition, he has broader interests in colonial America, the early republic, leadership, and early American cultural, intellectual, and political history. 

The American Soul
Aligning Actions with Values: Exploring Faith, Relationships, and Religious Freedom

The American Soul

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 23:00 Transcription Available


Send us a textUnlock the secrets to aligning your daily actions with your deepest values in this enlightening episode of the American Soul Podcast. We'll explore how spiritual practices, gratitude, and devotion can shape our lives, urging you to reflect on how well your actions prioritize relationships, especially with your spouse. With an eye on how our conduct is observed by both divine and human eyes, we challenge you to consider the authenticity of your public and private self.Journey back to the American Revolutionary period as we discuss James Warren's 1775 proclamation on observing the Sabbath, drawing powerful parallels to today's societal values. We ponder the core principles of religious freedom envisioned by America's founders, exploring how faith can fortify families, marriages, and the nation at large. Our discussion invites you to imagine a hopeful future rooted in values that support both personal liberty and communal strength. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that promises to resonate long after the episode ends.Support the showThe American Soul Podcasthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe

Historians At The Movies
Episode 103: The Terminator with Craig Bruce Smith and Robert Greene II

Historians At The Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 69:41


This week Craig Bruce Smith and Robert Greene II drop in to debate whether The Terminator was the most important film made in the 1980s, plus ranking the biggest action stars from 1980 to 2000.About our guests: Craig Bruce Smith is an associate professor of history at National Defense University in the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) in Norfolk, VA. He authored American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era and co-authored George Washington's Lessons in Ethical Leadership.Smith earned his PhD in American history from Brandeis University. Previously, he was an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), an assistant professor of history, and the director of the history program at William Woods University, and he has taught at additional colleges, including Tufts University. He specializes in American Revolutionary and early American history, specifically focusing on George Washington, honor, ethics, war, the founders, transnational ideas, and national identity. In addition, he has broader interests in colonial America, the early republic, leadership, and early American cultural, intellectual, and political history. Robert Greene II IS  Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. Dr. Greene received his Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Linguistics with a concentration in Creative Writing from Georgia Southern University; his Master of Arts in History from Georgia Southern University; and earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Dr. Greene recently completed his dissertation at the University of South Carolina, about the ways in which Democratic Party leaders in the South from 1964 to 1994 vied for the African American vote via appeals to Southern identity and memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Greene has published a book chapter in the collection Navigating Souths, and has published a scholarly article in Patterns of Prejudice. He has also published at several popular magazines and websites, including The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, Scalawag, Current Affairs, and Jacobin.His research interests include African American history, American intellectual history since 1945, and Southern history since 1945. Dr. Greene is also a blogger and book review editor for the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians, and has just begun a six-post stint for the Teaching American History blog. 

Christian Podcast Community
Did Trump Really Say That?! (part 2)

Christian Podcast Community

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 59:40


This episode is part 2 of examining common claims about something Donald Trump said.As we examine each trope let's ask ourselves "Did Trump really say that?!"Context is king. There can be more than meets the eye than what media will often have us believe.In part 3 we dissect three hoaxes:The "Dictator on day one" hoaxThe "bloodbath" hoaxThe "terminate the Constitution" hoaxSources Cited:"Trump Says He Won't Be a Dictator ‘Except for Day One' if Re-Elected," WSJ News, December 6, 2023."Donald Trump: I'm not going to be a dictator," Fox News, January 10, 2024."Kamala- Trump will be Dictator on day one weaponize Department Of Justice against political enemies," Dimabong Times, July 10, 2024."WATCH: Harris says it's 'well known' that Trump admires dictators and wants to be one," PBS News Hour, September 10, 2024."WATCH: Trump Makes Viral 'Bloodbath' Comments During Comments About Auto Manufacturing At Ohio Rally," Forbes Breaking News, March 17, 2024."MSNBC 03 18 2024 06 13 21," Rosalita Esperanza, March 18, 2024."Biden Rips Trump Over 'Dictator' And 'Bloodbath' Comments At White House Correspondents' Dinner," Forbes Breaking News, April 28, 2024."Joe Biden Warns Crowd During Speech At The DNC: Trump Is ‘Promising A Bloodbath If He Loses'," Forbes Breaking News, August 20, 2024."Media Saying 'Bloodbath' Compilation, Hoax EXPOSED," American Revolutionary, March 18, 2024.Donald J. Trump, "So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION," Truth Social, December 3, 2022.Sareen Habeshian, "Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to 'massive' election fraud," Axios, Updated December 3, 2022."See what Trump said about ‘our beloved Constitution' before calling for its ‘termination'," CNN, December 5, 2022.Donald J. Trump, "The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People," Truth Social, December 5, 2022.Donald J. Trump, "SIMPLY PUT, IF AN ELECTION IS IRREFUTABLY FRAUDULENT," Truth Social, December 5, 2022.Steve Benen, "Under fire, Trump denies writing what he wrote about Constitution," MSNBC, December 6, 2022.Andrew Feinberg, "

Truthspresso
Did Trump Really Say That?! (part 2)

Truthspresso

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 59:40


This episode is part 2 of examining common claims about something Donald Trump said.As we examine each trope let's ask ourselves "Did Trump really say that?!"Context is king. There can be more than meets the eye than what media will often have us believe.In part 3 we dissect three hoaxes:The "Dictator on day one" hoaxThe "bloodbath" hoaxThe "terminate the Constitution" hoaxSources Cited:"Trump Says He Won't Be a Dictator ‘Except for Day One' if Re-Elected," WSJ News, December 6, 2023."Donald Trump: I'm not going to be a dictator," Fox News, January 10, 2024."Kamala- Trump will be Dictator on day one weaponize Department Of Justice against political enemies," Dimabong Times, July 10, 2024."WATCH: Harris says it's 'well known' that Trump admires dictators and wants to be one," PBS News Hour, September 10, 2024."WATCH: Trump Makes Viral 'Bloodbath' Comments During Comments About Auto Manufacturing At Ohio Rally," Forbes Breaking News, March 17, 2024."MSNBC 03 18 2024 06 13 21," Rosalita Esperanza, March 18, 2024."Biden Rips Trump Over 'Dictator' And 'Bloodbath' Comments At White House Correspondents' Dinner," Forbes Breaking News, April 28, 2024."Joe Biden Warns Crowd During Speech At The DNC: Trump Is ‘Promising A Bloodbath If He Loses'," Forbes Breaking News, August 20, 2024."Media Saying 'Bloodbath' Compilation, Hoax EXPOSED," American Revolutionary, March 18, 2024.Donald J. Trump, "So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION," Truth Social, December 3, 2022.Sareen Habeshian, "Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to 'massive' election fraud," Axios, Updated December 3, 2022."See what Trump said about ‘our beloved Constitution' before calling for its ‘termination'," CNN, December 5, 2022.Donald J. Trump, "The Fake News is actually trying to convince the American People," Truth Social, December 5, 2022.Donald J. Trump, "SIMPLY PUT, IF AN ELECTION IS IRREFUTABLY FRAUDULENT," Truth Social, December 5, 2022.Steve Benen, "Under fire, Trump denies writing what he wrote about Constitution," MSNBC, December 6, 2022.Andrew Feinberg, "

Ancient History Encyclopedia
Nathanael Greene

Ancient History Encyclopedia

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 19:59


Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) was a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). One of George Washington's most trusted subordinates, Greene served capably as Quartermaster General before leading the southern American army during the final years of the war. He is often considered the second-best American Revolutionary general, behind only Washington himself.

Bureau of Lost Culture
Rubin and The Yippies

Bureau of Lost Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024 65:22


In 1964 he was a working class hippie student crossing Haight Street, a road in San Francscso, when hit by a vision  - and life as he knew it was over In 1994, he was a multi-millionaire new-age entrepeneur crossing Wilshire Boulevard, a road in Los Angeles, when hit by a car - and life as he knew it was over. In the years in between, along with the co-founder of The Yippies Abbie Hoffman, counter-culture icon, anti-war activist, new age/self-help proponent, social-networking pioneer and all round troublemaker JERRY RUBIN helped articulate the voice of young America in the '60s and early '70s.   He was arrested countless times, carried out many extrardinary protests that used performance art, pranks and provocation including an attempt to levitate The Pentagon and regularly hung out with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York. Unlike Hoffman, who lived off grid for several years following a drug bust, died by suicide in 1989 and was canonized as a countercultural saint, Rubin was accused by many of “selling out" - the worst thing a 1960s radical could do - and as a consequence got written out of the hippie history books.   Well that is until our guest for this episode wrote the biography, 'Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary'   PAT THOMAS, archivist, uber re-issue producer, countercultral author and music journalist returned for the third timr to the Bureau.   Previously he was here to talk about The Black Panthers and Allen Ginsberg,and this time, he traced  Jerry Rubin's journey from high school journalist to stoned political freak and multi-millionaire entrepeneur.   Along the way, we hear about The Yippies(the Youth International Party), The Chicago 8, John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the early 70s, EST training - and selling out   And we debate the question: 'Once a revolutionary always a revolutionary?'   Pat's book:  'Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary'     Check out this Rubin related playlist   #jerryrubin #abbiehoffman #theblackpanthers #blackpower #yippies #theyippies #thebeats #allenginsberg #timothyleary #activism #socialism #revolution #levitatethepentagon #eldridgecleaver #bobdylan #nixon #johnandyoko #vietnam #anti-war #protest #johnlennon #haightashbury #thechicago8   

StoryJumpers
Voyage with Vikings by Marianne Hering

StoryJumpers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024


While visiting Mr. Whittaker at Whit's Soda Shoppe, Beth and Patrick find a mysterious letter in the Imagination Station requesting a Viking sunstone. The letter is old and says that someone named Albert will be imprisoned if the sunstone isn't found.Mr. Whittaker sends cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland circa 1000. On their quest for the sunstone, the cousins meet Vikings Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson―and find the sunstone as they join Leif on his first voyage to North America.But the adventure is just beginning, for when they return to Mr. Whittaker's workshop with the sunstone, there is another note waiting for them, requesting a silver goblet.Join Patrick and Beth as they travel to various lands and times in the Imagination Station book series!VOYAGE WITH VIKINGS is the first book in The Imagination Station series from Focus on The Family!Your children will sail with Vikings! Meet a Roman explorer! Be an American Revolutionary! And take a thrilling train ride through the Wild West!With each book, kids are whisked away with cousins Patrick and Beth to embark on a new journey around the world and back in time. Kids experience unforgettable, action-packed adventures when they travel through the Imagination Station series. You know those tests kids take in the first grade? It's the first time they have to fill in a sheet of paper covered in little dots. Well, when one of her twins took that test, author Marianne Hering found out that her son Lewis couldn't read.So along with a fellow parent and coworker—Paul McCusker—she dove into the world of historical fiction for kids. She wanted to create some stories that had action and adventure but were easy to read. And one last thing—they needed lasting value. So they put in Christian history and some good role models.Since she had been a professional writer and editor at Focus on the Family for more than a decade, she had a good idea how to start The Imagination Station book series. Paul McCusker was a producer and scriptwriter for Adventures in Odyssey, so he had a pretty good idea about how the Imagination Station should work.Marianne Hering lives in Colorado, a place where the natural beauty makes it difficult for her to stay indoors. But she stays inside to write books for kids and their families.And her son Lewis? Well, he's in college now learning to be a chemical engineer! He still likes numbers better than letters. But . . . he can read!Learn more about the Imagination Station book series at MarianneHering.comPlease share StoryJumpers with a friend if you enjoyed this episode. StoryJumpers is still growing, and your positive review and 5-star rating would help.The Bridge Podcast Network is made possible by generous support from The Boardwalk Plaza Hotel and Victoria's Restaurant on the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware - Open 7 days a week, year-round - Learn more at https://boardwalkplaza.comFeedback, or Show Ideas? Send an email to podcast@wearethebridge.orgDownload The Bridge Mobile App to get the latest podcast episodes as soon as they are published!

Imperfect Men
Episode 38: Richard Henry Lee

Imperfect Men

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 46:32


On this episode, Steve and Cody follow up on the special episode on the Lee Resolution from a year ago and discuss its author, the six-fingered Senator, Richard Henry Lee.Podcast to recommend: The Civil War & Reconstruction (https://civilwarpodcast.org/)SourcesJournals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, ed. Worthington C. Ford et al. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1905.McGaughy, J. Kent. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A portrait of an American Revolutionary. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.Unger, Harlow Giles. First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call for Independence. New York City, NY: Da Capo Press, 2017.United States Congress. “Richard Henry Lee.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 18 Jun 2024.See pinned tweet for general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drunk on Trivia
EP 011: US Founding Fathers Trivia!

Drunk on Trivia

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 7:19


Today's topic is the US founding fathers! How well do you know our founding fathers? And, can you answer some trivia questions about them in time? Some questions include: Who was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence? Which founding father was known for the famous quote "Give me liberty or Give me Death"? What was the turning point of the American Revolutionary war? And much, much, much more. As always try to say the correct answer before I say the answer. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new topic so make sure you follow the podcast! If you love trivia, check us out on other platforms: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/drunkontrivia/⁠ ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@christianhalstrivia⁠ Thank you so much and see you tomorrow!

Revolution 250 Podcast
The Creation of the American Republic with Gordon Wood

Revolution 250 Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 38:49


As we approach our 200th episode we talk with Gordon Wood on his first book, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 - 1787 which ranks among the most important books ever written about the American Revolutionary period and the formation of the American Republic.  Join us as to hear about what the founders got right, what they got wrong, and how it continues to influence and evolve in America today.Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

Historians At The Movies
Franklin Episodes 1-3 with Kelsa Pelletiere and Craig Bruce Smith

Historians At The Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2024 99:23


This week begins our first episode covering the new series on Apple TV, FRANKLIN, starring Michael Douglas. Each week we'll recap the episode, fill in with historical backstory, and offer plenty of snark. We have a permanent cohost for the series in Kelsa Pelletiere, one of the foremost Franklin scholars in the world. And we'll rotate in new guests each week to provide fresh thoughts and perspective on what we are seeing onscreen. This is gonna be fun.About our guests:Kelsa Pelletiere is the guest host for the duration of the Franklin podcast miniseries. I sought out someone who is an absolute expert on the man and his life and seemingly everyone came back with Kelsa. She is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Mississippi. Her research focuses on early diplomatic history in the United States, specifically Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution. Her teaching interests include eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century American history; Revolutionary America; U.S. diplomacy; and the Atlantic world.Craig Bruce Smith is an associate professor of history at National Defense University in the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) in Norfolk, VA. He authored American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era and co-authored George Washington's Lessons in Ethical Leadership. He specializes in American Revolutionary and early American history, specifically focusing on George Washington, honor, ethics, war, the founders, transnational ideas, and national identity. In addition, he has broader interests in colonial America, the early republic, leadership, and early American cultural, intellectual, and political history.

Dan Snow's History Hit
George Washington

Dan Snow's History Hit

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 38:11


As Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, George Washington was a central feature of the American Revolutionary War. He was also the first President of the nascent United States, and his ethics permeated the nation's constitution.Dan is joined by Craig Bruce Smith, Associate Professor of History at the National Defense University specialising in the American Revolutionary era. Craig tells us all about the life, leadership and ethics of George Washington.Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code DANSNOW sign up at https://historyhit/subscription/We'd love to hear from you- what do you want to hear an episode on? You can email the podcast at ds.hh@historyhit.com.You can take part in our listener survey here.

Nixon and Watergate
The 2024 South Carolina Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - The Inductees: Rudy Mancke, Francis Salvador & Joe Frazier, with a Q&A with Joe Frazier Jr. (Part 1)

Nixon and Watergate

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 60:41


In one of the true honors of our host Randal Wallace's career has been his appointment as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame.  2024 marks the first time Mr. Wallace would preside over the induction ceremony of honorees inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame.  He decided that we would make a podcast covering the event. In this two part episode we look on at the 2024 Induction Ceremony honoring Francis Salvador, Rudy Manke and Joe Frazier.  We begin by looking at the honorees and their lives. Francis Salvador was an American Revolutionary figure who was also the first Jewish person elected to public office in America, and the first Jewish person to die fighting for independence in America. Rudy Mancke, the host of SC ETV's Nature Scenes television show that became a national broadcast introducing young people all over the country to the natural world around us, a show featuring  a host who so clearly loved his job and the natural world he was exposing his audience too. Nature Scenes ran for 23 years. Smokin Joe Frazier was the undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion who was the first man to defeat Mohammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in the first of a three fight series that are easily the most famous boxing matches in the entire history of the sport.  To say that Joe Frazier was a giant in the sport of boxing is an understatement of huge proportions. He shared the ring with some of the greatest athletes of the era and one of them, George Foreman, is quoted as saying that Joe Frazier was the one opponent he feared. We also are proud to share with you on this podcast a Question and Answer segment with the son of honoree Joe Frazier, Joe Frazier Jr. It is an inspirational talk with the young people of Myrtle Beach S.C, and it is a segment they won't ever forget and you won't either. We also spend a couple of minutes learning about the history of the Hall of Fame with one of its founding Board members and former long time Chairman , Former Myrtle Beach Mayor Robert Hirsch. We hope you enjoy this first of two episodes on the South Carolina Hall of Fame and its newest honorees. Ranked 4th as one of the best American History Podcasts of 2024https://podcasts.feedspot.com/american_history_podcasts/ Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Don‘t Tread on Merica!
The American Revolutionary Civil War!

Don‘t Tread on Merica!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 58:32


The American Revolutionary Civil War! On today's show I discuss what I believe this country could be in store for! I've said in the past that we were on the verge of a civil war! But I believe there is more to it! Listen to find out why!  Web Site: www.DontTreadonMerica.com     DTOM Store (Promo code DTOM for 10% off)     Sponsors: www.makersmark.com   Social Media:   DTOM on Facebook   DTOM on X    DTOM on TikTok    DTOM on Instagram    DTOM on YouTube      

Hebrew Nation Online
“Come out of her, My people” Show ~ Mark Call weekly

Hebrew Nation Online

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2023 49:47


What was once literally unthinkable, as in "it could NEVER happen here," is now subsidized by a totalitarian state that makes the Tyrant King George III of the American Revolutionary era look reasonable by comparison. We've almost gotten used to "grooming" of pre-pubescent children in the Public Cesspools en route to their sterilization and eventual self-destruction. And this week even a WasteStream news outlet ran video of traitorous "Border Patrol" agents CUTTING THE FENCING on private property on the border of once-free Texas with Mexico, in order to allow invaders better access to the conquered land. People with "eyes to see" are outraged. Those drinking the Kool-Aid, or the Bud Lite, have already had "their delusions chosen for them. And: "Outrage is NOT Enough"

Between the Slides
5 Lessons from American Revolutionary Leaders to Build a Project Team of Giants | KEV Talks #28

Between the Slides

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2023 21:28


In 5 Lessons from American Revolutionary Leaders to Build a Project Team of Giants | KEV Talks #28 I share 5 lessons I learned from reading Jack Kelly's amazing book, "Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence". More specifically, how these lessons can be implemented by Program and Project Managers to establish their own team of giants to increase program and project success.The 5 lessons:Review lessons learned ahead of timeAccept the messy beginningSet the tone, but allow for free thinkingUnderstand that logistics are criticalManage the mutinies

World Herstory
Margaret Cochran Corbin

World Herstory

Play Episode Play 25 sec Highlight Listen Later May 4, 2023 25:37


Discover the life of Margaret Cochran Corbin - the first woman to receive a military pension from the United States. Join us as we dive into the American Revolutionary war, the rise of American Feminism, and Margaret's legacy. Support the show

Historians At The Movies
Die Hard with Annette Gordon-Reed and Craig Bruce Smith

Historians At The Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2022 55:26


We all know Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but is it a history movie? This week we're talking to two of the most prominent historians of the Early American Republic to get to the bottom of the debates. You're gonna love where this goes. Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (UVA Press, 1997), Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs, 2001), Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (Oxford University Press, 2002), a volume of essays that she edited, Andrew Johnson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010) and, with Peter S. Onuf, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her most recent book is On Juneteenth (Liveright Publishing, 2021). Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.  She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation.  A selected list of her honors includes a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Gordon-Reed served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2010 to 2018.  She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy's Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2019, she was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.Craig Bruce Smith is an associate professor of history at National Defense University in the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) in Norfolk, VA. He authored American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era and co-authored George Washington's Lessons in Ethical Leadership. Smith earned his PhD in American history from Brandeis University. Previously, he was an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), an assistant professor of history and the director of the history program at William Woods University, and he has taught at additional colleges, including Tufts University. He specializes in American Revolutionary and early American history, with a specific focus on George Washington, honor, ethics, war, the founders, transnational ideas, and national identity. In addition, he has broader interests in colonial America, the early republic, leadership, and early American cultural, intellectual, and political history.

StoryJumpers
Voyage with Vikings by Marianne Hering

StoryJumpers

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2022


While visiting Mr. Whittaker at Whit's Soda Shoppe, Beth and Patrick find a mysterious letter in the Imagination Station requesting a Viking sunstone. The letter is old and says that someone named Albert will be imprisoned if the sunstone isn't found.Mr. Whittaker sends cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland circa 1000. On their quest for the sunstone, the cousins meet Vikings Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson―and find the sunstone as they join Leif on his first voyage to North America.But the adventure is just beginning, for when they return to Mr. Whittaker's workshop with the sunstone, there is another note waiting for them, requesting a silver goblet.Join Patrick and Beth as they travel to various lands and times in the Imagination Station book series!VOYAGE WITH VIKINGS is the first book in The Imagination Station series from Focus on The Family!Your children will sail with Vikings! Meet a Roman explorer! Be an American Revolutionary! And take a thrilling train ride through the Wild West!With each book, kids are whisked away with cousins Patrick and Beth to embark on a new journey around the world and back in time. Kids experience unforgettable, action-packed adventures when they travel through the Imagination Station series. You know those tests kids take in the first grade? It's the first time they have to fill in a sheet of paper covered in little dots. Well, when one of her twins took that test, author Marianne Hering found out that her son Lewis couldn't read.So along with a fellow parent and coworker—Paul McCusker—she dove into the world of historical fiction for kids. She wanted to create some stories that had action and adventure but were easy to read. And one last thing—they needed lasting value. So they put in Christian history and some good role models.Since she had been a professional writer and editor at Focus on the Family for more than a decade, she had a good idea how to start The Imagination Station book series. Paul McCusker was a producer and scriptwriter for Adventures in Odyssey, so he had a pretty good idea about how the Imagination Station should work.Marianne Hering lives in Colorado, a place where the natural beauty makes it difficult for her to stay indoors. But she stays inside to write books for kids and their families.And her son Lewis? Well, he's in college now learning to be a chemical engineer! He still likes numbers better than letters. But . . . he can read!Learn more about the Imagination Station book series at MarianneHering.comPlease share StoryJumpers with a friend if you enjoyed this episode. StoryJumpers is still growing, and your positive review and 5-star rating would help.The Bridge Podcast Network is made possible by generous support from The Boardwalk Plaza Hotel and Victoria's Restaurant on the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware - Open 7 days a week, year-round - Learn more at https://boardwalkplaza.comFeedback, or Show Ideas? Send an email to podcast@wearethebridge.orgDownload The Bridge Mobile App to get the latest podcast episodes as soon as they are published!

Dr Mary Travelbest Guide
Philadelphia, PA

Dr Mary Travelbest Guide

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 6:44


Connect with Dr Travelbest Drmarytravelbest.com Dr. Mary Travelbest Twitter Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Page Dr. Mary Travelbest Facebook Group Dr. Mary Travelbest Instagram email: info@drmarytravelbest.com Dr. Mary Travelbest Podcast Dr. Travelbest on TikTok In this episode: FAQ is:  Yuli asked, Where can I travel pretty far and well on a smaller budget? Today's Destination is: Philadelphia Today's Mistake- Getting in the wrong line Travel Advice:  Let's both win through travel.   FAQ: Where can I travel pretty far and well on a smaller budget?   Answer:   Traveling a long distance should not be the end goal, but if you are looking for a Step 5 travel experience, here's an idea good for a smaller budget. You can see a lot in Thailand on a shoestring budget. It's got plenty of airlines serving the country plus you can get around in the main cities via public transportation. So consider going here for your next trip. It is a tropical island, so consider that it will be humid and rainy often. You may need to cool off in a beachy resort, and know that you can find great deals. You can get an awesome massage for a small fee here, so that will be my suggestion. You could afford one every day you visit. Pamper yourself here.   Today's destination is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   The city of Brotherly Love is what Philly is known for, the 6th largest US city. And cheestakes. You as a traveler will want to see the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and where the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution were signed. You will also like the American Revolutionary sites. It's a step 1 or step 2 city of the 5 steps to solo travel.   More recent fame is for the run to the top of the staircase where in the movie “Rocky”, the movie is, with Sylvester Stallone working out, which is the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The theme music still rings in my head for that great film. Da da da da …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCO40Zwt00   The region not only has American history and arts, but also a lot of traditional foods and activities. Philly has the most outdoor sculptures and murals than any other US city per capita. find them in all parts of town. Fairmount Park, Wissa hickon Valley Park are two examples of parks in the city.   How many tourists visit? 42 million in 2016 who spent nearly $7 Billion that year. Phillies, Eagles, 76ers and plenty of other sports keep fans hoping for winning seasons here. Catch a game if you are in town. Some neighborhoods are best during the daytime, because there can be danger at nighttime if you're not familiar with the inner city areas. Some are less safe than others, like any large city.  Some travelers combine Philadelphia with Amish Country, which was episode 136. Other people combine Philly with a visit to Washington, DC, episode 177  and even New York, episodes 100 and 101. I spoke to Chrissy Watts, who is a Phily tour guide. She helps organize events such as: bar crawls. You can find her info in show notes: (@215experiences  She organizes Five star black mural tours, wellness sessions, themed party buses for locals and visitors. IG @phillyexperiences)   Don't travel in the inner city at night alone Do enjoy some of the history, art and sports. Today's Mistake- Getting in the wrong line   If you are solo, it's not so easy to lineup like if you have a partner. If you have a partner, one can stand in line and the other can find out if it's the right line by asking someone in charge. Once I waited in line at the airport for an airline ticket, but could have easily ordered it on my phone. Just because everyone is lining up doesn't meet you should. If you can, consider how you can navigate the situation on your phone with an app. If you are lining up in person and can't use the app, they ask someone in front of you to save your place in line and get agreement.   Today's Travel Advice-.Let's both win!   When you have a successful trip, I win. Let me know where you traveled, where you had the best time and what to look forward to next.  

Cryptic Files
#50 - Investigating The Haunted Pearis Cemetery/Giles County, VA

Cryptic Files

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2022 49:18


In this special "It's Cryptic Out There" episode, the crew investigates Giles County's historical graveyard located in VA. The Pearis Cemetery. Colonel George Pearis fought in the American Revolutionary war and founded the town of Pearisburg. It is said that George haunts the graveyard as well as over 200 spirits. The Cryptic crew travels at night to investigate and what they capture is quite creepy... Cryptic Hotline: (540) 358-1583 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_1q... https://www.instagram.com/itscryptico... https://www.facebook.com/groups/25315... itscrypticoutthere@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/crypticoutthere --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itscrypticoutthere/support

Pop & Locke
1776

Pop & Locke

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2022 57:35


What's more faithful to the facts of the founders—1776 or Hamilton? Why does John Adams get the star treatment while James Wilson gets such short shrift? And what does the musical many of us had to watch in high school get wrong about American Revolutionary history? All that and more are answered this week, with the help of David Boaz, Paul Matzko, and first time guest Tim Sandefur. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Plausibly Live! - The Official Podcast of The Dave Bowman Show

The Rabbis tell us that some of the most important parts of the scriptures are the stories that we do not like. The tales of failures and embarrassing happenings that don't seem to fit the overall narrative of a loving G-d reaching out to his people. The stories of death and murder and assault and war and strife that often leave us wondering, "Why is this here?" At the end of the day, there are - more often than not - important lessons in these chapters that if we are willing to put in the effort, will prove instructive. We have this idea that the American Revolutionary war was a series of great events that usually saw the Continentals getting the best of the British or the Hessians or the spies sent to find out our plans. We love to read and hear about the magnificent and inspiring victories and the mighty leaders who stood resolutely against tyranny. Those are the takes we enjoy and from which we take our motivation. But on this day in 1780, one of the darkest events of the entire war took place on the field in Camden, SC. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/plausibly-live/message

Mass Struggle
"The Initiative, Creativity and Ideas of the Masses" - The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement

Mass Struggle

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 39:57


This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter seven of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement,  "The Initiative, Creativity and Ideas of the Masses," by Scott Harrison.Access free bonus material or support the show: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email: massstrugglepod@gmail.com

Mass Struggle
"Have Faith in the Masses" - The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement

Mass Struggle

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2022 16:22


This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter six of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Have Faith in the Masses."Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com

Mass Struggle
"Who Are the Masses?" - The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement

Mass Struggle

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2022 32:32


This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter five of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Who Are the Masses?"Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.com

Mass Struggle
"Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line" - The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement

Mass Struggle

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2022 23:45


This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter four of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "Misconceptions and Distortions of the Mass Line."Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music: 

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
The Underrated Patrick Henry

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 50:07


Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!  When Henry said it, he might have been committing treason. Yet the words also made him famous and indicated his superior bravery and patriotism to his country. The trouble is, that's often all he's remembered for. But without Henry the Revolution may not have succeeded and the Constitution may not look like it does. We get into why. From a 2017 interview - a bit about Patrick Henry and his times. Why the forgotten American "founder," one who was often too busy in his home state of Virginia to get nationally famous can provide us with American Revolutionary war stories and government founding narratives more interesting than just the Franklin, Jefferson and Washington stories we are accustomed to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mass Struggle
"A Quick Overview of the Mass Line" - The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement

Mass Struggle

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 30:54


This episode is a reading and reflection on chapter three of The Mass Line and the American Revolutionary Movement, "A Quick Overview of the Mass Line."Support the show and access free bonus material: https://www.patreon.com/massstruggleFollow Mass Struggle on instagram: @MassStrugglePodFollow Mass Struggle on twitter: @MassStrugglePod Email us: massstrugglepod@gmail.comGraphic Design:Music: 

New Books Network
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 90:58


The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspirations have a number of rocks in their shoes to deal with, perhaps most famously the failure of the Soviet Union and the shadow of Stalinism. Those looking to remain faithful to the spirit of revolutionary Marxism while still seriously reckoning with the tragedies of the past will need to develop new routes, and for that to happen, alternative figures and histories will need to be turned to. One such figure many have found inspiration in is James P. Cannon, the American activist and agitator, most famous as the leading founder of American Trotskyism, and no one knows his life and times better than Bryan D. Palmer, here to discuss the first entry in his multi-volume biography of Cannon. The volume discussed in this episode, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (U Illinois Press, 2010), covers Cannon's life from his birth in a small town in Kansas to his expulsion in 1928 from the Communist Party. It's a story of a small-town local agitator who ends up mired in international controversy, surrounded by factional infighting in his own country but also deeply rooted in the revolutionary degeneration happening in Moscow as Stalin took over the party. In the face of this, Cannon slowly became depressed and disillusioned, in a political fog that wouldn't be cleared until he stumbled upon a document in 1928 by Leon Trotsky that would point the way towards a revolutionary alternative that neither succumbed to Stalinism or capitalist-capitulation. It's for this reason that Palmer's account of Cannon's life allows him to tell a very different history of communism in the 20th century, one that has been banished and dismissed for too long, and that will no doubt provide inspiration for many in the 21st century. Originally published in 2007 as part of the Illinois University Press series The Working Class in American History, it won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Its sequel, the much longer James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38, was published much more recently and will be discussed in a later episode. In both works Palmer's command of the vast archives of material are combined with an incredible capacity for storytelling, hitting a sweet spot of rigorous research and compelling historical reading. Anyone interested in the history of Marxism, American labor, class struggle, or simply looking for an alternative to the rot and decay of our current order will find in this book richly rewarding. Bryan D. Palmer is professor emeritus of history at Trent University. He is the former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and is the author of numerous books on radical social movements and labor history including Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression, and Marxism and Historical Practice (2 volumes). He was also a coeditor with Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Bias of the 3-volume document collection US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Critical Theory
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 90:58


The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspirations have a number of rocks in their shoes to deal with, perhaps most famously the failure of the Soviet Union and the shadow of Stalinism. Those looking to remain faithful to the spirit of revolutionary Marxism while still seriously reckoning with the tragedies of the past will need to develop new routes, and for that to happen, alternative figures and histories will need to be turned to. One such figure many have found inspiration in is James P. Cannon, the American activist and agitator, most famous as the leading founder of American Trotskyism, and no one knows his life and times better than Bryan D. Palmer, here to discuss the first entry in his multi-volume biography of Cannon. The volume discussed in this episode, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (U Illinois Press, 2010), covers Cannon's life from his birth in a small town in Kansas to his expulsion in 1928 from the Communist Party. It's a story of a small-town local agitator who ends up mired in international controversy, surrounded by factional infighting in his own country but also deeply rooted in the revolutionary degeneration happening in Moscow as Stalin took over the party. In the face of this, Cannon slowly became depressed and disillusioned, in a political fog that wouldn't be cleared until he stumbled upon a document in 1928 by Leon Trotsky that would point the way towards a revolutionary alternative that neither succumbed to Stalinism or capitalist-capitulation. It's for this reason that Palmer's account of Cannon's life allows him to tell a very different history of communism in the 20th century, one that has been banished and dismissed for too long, and that will no doubt provide inspiration for many in the 21st century. Originally published in 2007 as part of the Illinois University Press series The Working Class in American History, it won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Its sequel, the much longer James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38, was published much more recently and will be discussed in a later episode. In both works Palmer's command of the vast archives of material are combined with an incredible capacity for storytelling, hitting a sweet spot of rigorous research and compelling historical reading. Anyone interested in the history of Marxism, American labor, class struggle, or simply looking for an alternative to the rot and decay of our current order will find in this book richly rewarding. Bryan D. Palmer is professor emeritus of history at Trent University. He is the former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and is the author of numerous books on radical social movements and labor history including Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression, and Marxism and Historical Practice (2 volumes). He was also a coeditor with Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Bias of the 3-volume document collection US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

New Books in Biography
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

New Books in Biography

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 90:58


The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspirations have a number of rocks in their shoes to deal with, perhaps most famously the failure of the Soviet Union and the shadow of Stalinism. Those looking to remain faithful to the spirit of revolutionary Marxism while still seriously reckoning with the tragedies of the past will need to develop new routes, and for that to happen, alternative figures and histories will need to be turned to. One such figure many have found inspiration in is James P. Cannon, the American activist and agitator, most famous as the leading founder of American Trotskyism, and no one knows his life and times better than Bryan D. Palmer, here to discuss the first entry in his multi-volume biography of Cannon. The volume discussed in this episode, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (U Illinois Press, 2010), covers Cannon's life from his birth in a small town in Kansas to his expulsion in 1928 from the Communist Party. It's a story of a small-town local agitator who ends up mired in international controversy, surrounded by factional infighting in his own country but also deeply rooted in the revolutionary degeneration happening in Moscow as Stalin took over the party. In the face of this, Cannon slowly became depressed and disillusioned, in a political fog that wouldn't be cleared until he stumbled upon a document in 1928 by Leon Trotsky that would point the way towards a revolutionary alternative that neither succumbed to Stalinism or capitalist-capitulation. It's for this reason that Palmer's account of Cannon's life allows him to tell a very different history of communism in the 20th century, one that has been banished and dismissed for too long, and that will no doubt provide inspiration for many in the 21st century. Originally published in 2007 as part of the Illinois University Press series The Working Class in American History, it won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Its sequel, the much longer James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38, was published much more recently and will be discussed in a later episode. In both works Palmer's command of the vast archives of material are combined with an incredible capacity for storytelling, hitting a sweet spot of rigorous research and compelling historical reading. Anyone interested in the history of Marxism, American labor, class struggle, or simply looking for an alternative to the rot and decay of our current order will find in this book richly rewarding. Bryan D. Palmer is professor emeritus of history at Trent University. He is the former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and is the author of numerous books on radical social movements and labor history including Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression, and Marxism and Historical Practice (2 volumes). He was also a coeditor with Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Bias of the 3-volume document collection US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

New Books in Intellectual History
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 90:58


The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspirations have a number of rocks in their shoes to deal with, perhaps most famously the failure of the Soviet Union and the shadow of Stalinism. Those looking to remain faithful to the spirit of revolutionary Marxism while still seriously reckoning with the tragedies of the past will need to develop new routes, and for that to happen, alternative figures and histories will need to be turned to. One such figure many have found inspiration in is James P. Cannon, the American activist and agitator, most famous as the leading founder of American Trotskyism, and no one knows his life and times better than Bryan D. Palmer, here to discuss the first entry in his multi-volume biography of Cannon. The volume discussed in this episode, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (U Illinois Press, 2010), covers Cannon's life from his birth in a small town in Kansas to his expulsion in 1928 from the Communist Party. It's a story of a small-town local agitator who ends up mired in international controversy, surrounded by factional infighting in his own country but also deeply rooted in the revolutionary degeneration happening in Moscow as Stalin took over the party. In the face of this, Cannon slowly became depressed and disillusioned, in a political fog that wouldn't be cleared until he stumbled upon a document in 1928 by Leon Trotsky that would point the way towards a revolutionary alternative that neither succumbed to Stalinism or capitalist-capitulation. It's for this reason that Palmer's account of Cannon's life allows him to tell a very different history of communism in the 20th century, one that has been banished and dismissed for too long, and that will no doubt provide inspiration for many in the 21st century. Originally published in 2007 as part of the Illinois University Press series The Working Class in American History, it won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Its sequel, the much longer James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38, was published much more recently and will be discussed in a later episode. In both works Palmer's command of the vast archives of material are combined with an incredible capacity for storytelling, hitting a sweet spot of rigorous research and compelling historical reading. Anyone interested in the history of Marxism, American labor, class struggle, or simply looking for an alternative to the rot and decay of our current order will find in this book richly rewarding. Bryan D. Palmer is professor emeritus of history at Trent University. He is the former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and is the author of numerous books on radical social movements and labor history including Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression, and Marxism and Historical Practice (2 volumes). He was also a coeditor with Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Bias of the 3-volume document collection US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

New Books in American Studies
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 90:58


The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspirations have a number of rocks in their shoes to deal with, perhaps most famously the failure of the Soviet Union and the shadow of Stalinism. Those looking to remain faithful to the spirit of revolutionary Marxism while still seriously reckoning with the tragedies of the past will need to develop new routes, and for that to happen, alternative figures and histories will need to be turned to. One such figure many have found inspiration in is James P. Cannon, the American activist and agitator, most famous as the leading founder of American Trotskyism, and no one knows his life and times better than Bryan D. Palmer, here to discuss the first entry in his multi-volume biography of Cannon. The volume discussed in this episode, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (U Illinois Press, 2010), covers Cannon's life from his birth in a small town in Kansas to his expulsion in 1928 from the Communist Party. It's a story of a small-town local agitator who ends up mired in international controversy, surrounded by factional infighting in his own country but also deeply rooted in the revolutionary degeneration happening in Moscow as Stalin took over the party. In the face of this, Cannon slowly became depressed and disillusioned, in a political fog that wouldn't be cleared until he stumbled upon a document in 1928 by Leon Trotsky that would point the way towards a revolutionary alternative that neither succumbed to Stalinism or capitalist-capitulation. It's for this reason that Palmer's account of Cannon's life allows him to tell a very different history of communism in the 20th century, one that has been banished and dismissed for too long, and that will no doubt provide inspiration for many in the 21st century. Originally published in 2007 as part of the Illinois University Press series The Working Class in American History, it won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Its sequel, the much longer James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38, was published much more recently and will be discussed in a later episode. In both works Palmer's command of the vast archives of material are combined with an incredible capacity for storytelling, hitting a sweet spot of rigorous research and compelling historical reading. Anyone interested in the history of Marxism, American labor, class struggle, or simply looking for an alternative to the rot and decay of our current order will find in this book richly rewarding. Bryan D. Palmer is professor emeritus of history at Trent University. He is the former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and is the author of numerous books on radical social movements and labor history including Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression, and Marxism and Historical Practice (2 volumes). He was also a coeditor with Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Bias of the 3-volume document collection US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books in American Politics
Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)

New Books in American Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 90:58


The history of revolutionary politics is rich enough that it includes the full spectrum of inspiration and tragedy. Those with revolutionary aspirations have a number of rocks in their shoes to deal with, perhaps most famously the failure of the Soviet Union and the shadow of Stalinism. Those looking to remain faithful to the spirit of revolutionary Marxism while still seriously reckoning with the tragedies of the past will need to develop new routes, and for that to happen, alternative figures and histories will need to be turned to. One such figure many have found inspiration in is James P. Cannon, the American activist and agitator, most famous as the leading founder of American Trotskyism, and no one knows his life and times better than Bryan D. Palmer, here to discuss the first entry in his multi-volume biography of Cannon. The volume discussed in this episode, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (U Illinois Press, 2010), covers Cannon's life from his birth in a small town in Kansas to his expulsion in 1928 from the Communist Party. It's a story of a small-town local agitator who ends up mired in international controversy, surrounded by factional infighting in his own country but also deeply rooted in the revolutionary degeneration happening in Moscow as Stalin took over the party. In the face of this, Cannon slowly became depressed and disillusioned, in a political fog that wouldn't be cleared until he stumbled upon a document in 1928 by Leon Trotsky that would point the way towards a revolutionary alternative that neither succumbed to Stalinism or capitalist-capitulation. It's for this reason that Palmer's account of Cannon's life allows him to tell a very different history of communism in the 20th century, one that has been banished and dismissed for too long, and that will no doubt provide inspiration for many in the 21st century. Originally published in 2007 as part of the Illinois University Press series The Working Class in American History, it won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. Its sequel, the much longer James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38, was published much more recently and will be discussed in a later episode. In both works Palmer's command of the vast archives of material are combined with an incredible capacity for storytelling, hitting a sweet spot of rigorous research and compelling historical reading. Anyone interested in the history of Marxism, American labor, class struggle, or simply looking for an alternative to the rot and decay of our current order will find in this book richly rewarding. Bryan D. Palmer is professor emeritus of history at Trent University. He is the former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and is the author of numerous books on radical social movements and labor history including Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression, and Marxism and Historical Practice (2 volumes). He was also a coeditor with Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Bias of the 3-volume document collection US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Untold Histories of the Atlantic World
School of Salamanca in Early Latin American Revolutionary Projects

Untold Histories of the Atlantic World

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2022 20:53


In today's episode, I discuss the influence of the School of Salamanca in early Latin American revolutionary projects in the context of the Spanish Atlantic World. Joining me, is Johannes Schmidt.

New Books Network
Katherine D. Moran, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell UP, 2020)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 43:23


Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire (Cornell UP, 2020) undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junípero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself. Carlos Ruiz Martinez is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the Communications Assistant for the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA). His general interest is in American religious history, especially American Catholicism. Allison Isidore is a graduate of the Religion in Culture Masters program at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in History
Katherine D. Moran, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell UP, 2020)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 43:23


Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire (Cornell UP, 2020) undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junípero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself. Carlos Ruiz Martinez is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the Communications Assistant for the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA). His general interest is in American religious history, especially American Catholicism. Allison Isidore is a graduate of the Religion in Culture Masters program at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

New Books in American Studies
Katherine D. Moran, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell UP, 2020)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 43:23


Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire (Cornell UP, 2020) undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junípero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself. Carlos Ruiz Martinez is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the Communications Assistant for the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA). His general interest is in American religious history, especially American Catholicism. Allison Isidore is a graduate of the Religion in Culture Masters program at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

New Books in Religion
Katherine D. Moran, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell UP, 2020)

New Books in Religion

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 43:23


Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire (Cornell UP, 2020) undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junípero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself. Carlos Ruiz Martinez is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the Communications Assistant for the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA). His general interest is in American religious history, especially American Catholicism. Allison Isidore is a graduate of the Religion in Culture Masters program at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

New Books in Christian Studies
Katherine D. Moran, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell UP, 2020)

New Books in Christian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 43:23


Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire (Cornell UP, 2020) undertakes an exploration of how Catholic mission histories served as a useful reference for Americans narrating US settler colonialism on the North American continent and seeking to extend military, political, and cultural power around the world. Katherine D. Moran traces historical celebrations of Catholic missionary histories in the upper Midwest, Southern California, and the US colonial Philippines to demonstrate the improbable centrality of the Catholic missions to ostensibly Protestant imperial endeavors. Moran shows that, as the United States built its continental and global dominion and an empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts. She demonstrates that American Protestants joined their Catholic compatriots in speaking with admiration about historical Catholic missionaries: the Jesuit Jacques Marquette in the Midwest, the Franciscan Junípero Serra in Southern California, and the Spanish friars in the Philippines. Comparing them favorably to the Puritans, Pilgrims, and the American Revolutionary generation, commemorators drew these missionaries into a cross-confessional pantheon of US national and imperial founding fathers. In the process, they cast Catholic missionaries as gentle and effective agents of conquest, uplift, and economic growth, arguing that they could serve as both origins and models for an American civilizing empire. The Imperial Church connects Catholic history and the history of US empire by demonstrating that the religious dimensions of American imperial rhetoric have been as cross-confessional as the imperial nation itself. Carlos Ruiz Martinez is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He is also the Communications Assistant for the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA). His general interest is in American religious history, especially American Catholicism. Allison Isidore is a graduate of the Religion in Culture Masters program at the University of Alabama. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church's response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. Allison is also a Video Editor for The Religious Studies Project producing videos for the podcast and marketing team. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

Fireside History presented by Luzerne County Historical Society
Fireside History Season 1 Episode 12 “Influential African Americans”

Fireside History presented by Luzerne County Historical Society

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 68:18


One year since the first episode, Fireside History presented by the Luzerne County Historical Society is going strong. In episode 12, Mark Riccetti, Jr. and Michael Ward talk about influential African Americans and their contributions to the Wyoming Valley. Hear the stories of American Revolutionary soldier Gershom Prince, businessman Samuel Wright, former diplomat John Henry Smythe, community activist Blanche Wright Morris, artist and sculptor C. Edgar Patience, and the “fastest human alive” in 1938 Ben Johnson. 

Danger Close
Hamilton (2015/2020)

Danger Close

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2021 104:12


Are we doing it? We're doing it! We are diving into our very first musical! Depicting two pivotal battles in the American Revolutionary war (1775-1783), it certainly has some war in it. And it is a FILMed performance of the stage play. It has been a sensation since its debut on Broadway for good reason, and it really does bring some of America's founding fathers to life with that wonderful blend of jazz and hip-hop that only Lin-Manuel Miranda could pull off. Constitutional rap battles, muskets, and adultery, OH MY! Join us as we explore An American Musical. Next Episode: The Battle of Algiers (1966) Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments! Our website: www.dangerclosepod.com Or join our Facebook group at: Danger Close - Podcast Discussion Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1442264899493646/) If you like the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify If you would like to support the show and get extra episodes where we discuss sci-fi, fantasy, and comedy war movies, go to our Patreon page at: www.dangerclosepod.com/support warmovies #warfilms #war #film #films #movies #history #cinema #musical #revolutionarywar

The Cost of Glory
Sertorius 2: Crisis in Rome

The Cost of Glory

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 57:22


Alexander Hamilton - future founder and lawgiver - was just a young aide of General George Washington in the American Revolutionary war. This was much like Sertorius' role under Gaius Marius in the last episode.Very few Camp Aides go on to great things, like becoming General. If you want to be one of those people, the ones who make the most of the opportunity to level up, what do you do?Hamilton, like many ambitious people before and after him, read Plutarch's Lives, taking notes on the biographies of the founders and lawgivers of Athens, Rome, and Sparta, learning how they overcame challenges in order to triumph.Sertorius, at this point in his career, as a political outsider, had to perform that much harder than his peers from noble families.  In this episode we trace his rise to political prominence.  He performs deeds of shocking daring and decisiveness when there are opportunities, and when all doors seem shut he patiently bides his time. In all cases, he maintains an iron will to survive and thrive.We learn how Sertorius permanently secures two cities in Spain in one night. How he becomes Quaestor. How he loses his eye in the Social wars.  We listen as he's enrolled as a member of the senate, as he runs for Tribune of the Plebs only to have Sulla form a cabal and block him. We witness the return of Marius - Marius 2.0, Make Marius Great Again. We listen as Sertorius makes an alliance with Cinna, before he, Cinna and Marius take back control of Rome. And finally, we hear how Sertorius is sent back to Spain as Governor, in the midst of a great civil war before being forced to take to the sea in a desperate attempt to keep hope alive for his cause.So, if like Hamilton, you're looking for a way to sharpen your present by learning from the lives of famous Greeks and Romans, such as Sertorius, download and listen to this latest episode. On today's podcast: How Sertorius became Quaestor Why Sulla blocked him from becoming Tribune of the Plebs Marius 2.0: Make Marius Great Again The Social Wars and Civil Wars The alliance between Sertorius, Cinna and Marius Becoming Governor of Spain Sertorius' decision to challenge the power of Rome Links:https://ancientlifecoach.com/Sponsors The Paideia Institute - classical tours and classical language teaching  www.paideiainstitute.org 

The Eric Metaxas Show
Rev. Bill Cook

The Eric Metaxas Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2021 50:51


Rev. Bill Cook is at the helm of the revival of the Black Robe Regiment which was prominent during American Revolutionary times and helped usher in a new nation founded on righteousness and freedom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

32 Fans
401. NFL Regular Season Recap

32 Fans

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 66:41


Keev and Alex recap the season for the 18 teams not headed to the playoffs and then make picks in this week's 6 Wild Card games. This episode's outro is "Chester", an American Revolutionary song by William Billings sent to us by a former guest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Women's History
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery" (UPenn Press, 2004)

New Books in Women's History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 97:38


Welcome to New Books in African American Studies, a channel on the New Books Network. I am your host Adam McNeil. Today is part 2 of my discussion about Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan's 2004 Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Instead of Dr. Morgan, who was featured in part 1 of the discussion, I enlisted a few #Blktwitterstorians to pull up to the pod and discuss the importance of Dr. Morgan's Laboring Women to the field of slavery studies, gender and sexuality studies, and other fields, along with why Laboring Women is so important to each scholar, and also where the field of slavery studies is going. My guests are: Dr. Natasha Lightfoot, associate professor of history at Columbia University, a historian of slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History. Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, assistant professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University, a historian of black diasporic freedom struggles from slavery to emancipation + as a digital humanist, Johnson explores ways digital and social media disseminate and create historical narratives, in particular, comparative histories of slavery and people of African descent. Halle Ashby, PhD Student in History at the Johns Hopkins University. Ashby is a historian of Caribbean slavery and emancipation, and her research concerns questions about gender, reproduction, and sexuality. Let me tell y'all, the conversation you are about to witness, is…. *chef's kiss. Sit back, and enjoy the ride y'all! Adam McNeil is a third-year PhD Student in History at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. McNeil is a historian of Black women's political histories during the American Revolutionary era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Age of Jackson Podcast
041 Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe with John Ferling

The Age of Jackson Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2018 63:34


Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe were in the vanguard of revolutionary ideas in the 18th century. As founding fathers, they risked their lives for American independence, but they also wanted more. Each wished for profound changes in the political and social fabric of pre-1776 America and hoped that the American Revolution would spark republican and egalitarian revolutions throughout Europe, sweeping away the old monarchical order. Ultimately, each rejoiced at the opportunity to be a part of the French Revolution, a cause that became untenable as idealism gave way to the bloody Terror.Apostles of Revolution spans a crucial period in Western Civilization ranging from the American insurgency against Great Britain to the Declaration of Independence, from desperate engagements on American battlefields to the threat posed to the ideals of the Revolution by the Federalist Party. With the French Revolution devolving into anarchy in the background, the era culminates with the “Revolution of 1800,” Jefferson's election as president.Written as a sweeping narrative of a pivotal epoch, Apostles of Revolution captures the turbulent spirit of the times and the personal dangers experienced by Jefferson, Paine, and Monroe. It reminds us that the liberty we take for granted is ours only because we, both champions and common citizens, have fought for it.John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of many books on American Revolutionary history, including The Ascent of George Washington; Almost a Miracle, an acclaimed military history of the War of Independence; and the award-winning A Leap in the Dark and Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It. His most recent book on American history is Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe. He and his wife, Carol, live near Atlanta, Georgia.