Revolution 250 Podcast

Revolution 250 is a consortium of organizations in New England planning commemorations of the American Revolution's 250th anniversary. https://revolution250.org/Through this podcast you will meet many of the people involved in these commemorations, and learn about the people who brought about the Revolution--which began here. To support Revolution 250, visit https://www.masshist.org/rev250Theme Music: "Road to Boston" fifes: Doug Quigley, Peter Emerick; Drums: Dave Emerick

Revolution 250 Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Robert Allison, with 318 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Robert Allison hosts Revolution 250 Podcast, a history show with 318 episodes published.

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  Episode #44

  The Creation of American Democracy with Johann Neem

  Sep 29, 202640 minS6

  What is the American experiment? Johann Neem explores this question in books and essays, beginning with his Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts , which showed how Americans created a civil society which fostered their independence. He explored how newly-independent Americans created a system of public education to sustain the republic, in Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America , and he continues to explore these questions of American identity and civic culture. A Professor of History at Western Washington University, Neem has also written of the role of colleges today, and on the state of k-12 education in preparing citizens for the next 250 years. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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  Cannonballs in Jersey City with Chris Bray

  Sep 22, 202632 min

  Digging in his Jersey City backyard in 2007, Chris Bray uncovered a 12-pound iron sphere. This was a mystery. What was it? How did it get there? Doing more digging in archives, he found that his neighborhood was the site of the Paulus Hook fort the rebels held in the summer of 1776, and the iron ball had been fired from a British cannon as the Royal Navy stormed up the Hudson River. The cannonball now sits in the City Hall in Jersey City, next to Frank Hague's desk, a reminder that the Revolution is still all around us. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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  Episode #42

  “Benevolence & Bondage”: Jonathan Edwards, Slavery, Race, and the Paradox of Spiritual Equality.

  Sep 15, 202642 minS6

  John Lowe of the University of Louisville joins us to talk about his new book, “Benevolence & Bondage”: Jonathan Edwards, Slavery, Race, and the Paradox of Spiritual Equality. Jonathan Edwards is remembered as one of colonial America’s most influential theologians—a preacher who taught that all souls stood equally before God. Yet Edwards was also an enslaver who lived and preached within a society shaped by racial bondage. Lowe examines the profound tension between Edwards’s theology of Christian benevolence and spiritual equality and his participation in slavery, and Edwards' long influence on American religious thought. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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  Episode #41

  Liberty & Equality in America with Byron Williams

  Sep 8, 202643 minS6

  The Declaration of Independence is the United States' most radical idea, and its most enduring paradox. Byron Williams, renowned public intellectual, theologian, columnist, explores this paradox in his new book, Liberty and Equality in America: Examining the Radical and Paradoxical Legacy of the Declaration of Independence. Williams asks: What does it mean for a nation officially committed to liberty and equality, while unofficially hamstrung by paradox to achieve its central tenets? Refusing simplistic celebration or cynical dismissal, Williams explores America's founding through the enduring tension between its highest ideals and its deepest contradictions. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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  Episode #40

  The Long Revolution with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

  Sep 1, 202642 minS6

  For a century after Independence, Americans believed that their Revolution was still in progress. Nowhere was this clearer than on the Fourth of July, when Americans gathered for speeches that, as one orator put it in 1834, aimed to “examine the present, and to look forward to the future.” Nathan Perl-Rosenthal joins us to talk about this exploration, which he covers in his new book The Long Revolution: Creating a United States after 1776, , which mines thousands of Independence Day orations. In the words of local notables and national celebrities, men and women, white and Black, Perl-Rosenthal identifies contrasting visions, intense anxieties, and radical power the Revolution evoked deep into the nineteenth century. He has also created a map, July Fourth Orations , which shows where these thousands of events took place. This is a history of the American founding for today’s fragmented and anxious political moment, helping us find a usable past to guide us toward our own uncertain future. Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!

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