American Revolution Podcast
American Revolution Podcast explores the events of the American Revolution, from beginning to end. It publishes weekly. Be sure to check out the related blog for access to pictures, maps, and links to more useful information on each week's episode. https://blog.amrevpodcast.com
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 442
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Rev250-006 New England Restraining Act
On March 30, 1775, King George III signed into law the New England Restraining Act, preventing the more troublesome colonies in North America from trading with anyone other than directly with Britain…
00:07:13 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
ARP347 Constitutional Convention's Biggest Fight
Delegates at the 1787 Federal Convention struggle to decide whether the new government will represent the states, or the people.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as…
00:33:45 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Rev250-005 Patrick Henry: Liberty or Death!
In March 1775, Virginia Delegates meet in defiance of the Royal Governor to discuss additional steps to opposed the actions of Parliament. When Patrick Henry proposes to build up the militia, opponen…
00:10:17 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
ARP346 Constitutional Convention Begins
The Constitutional Convention got off to a rocky start, beginning nearly two weeks after the planned start date. Not enough states showed up until then. Delegates spent the first few days electing …
00:31:52 |
Sun 16 Mar 2025
Rev250-004
In March 1775, Daniel Boone begins work on the Wilderness Road into Kentucky.
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00:06:14 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
ARP345 Planning a Constitutional Convention
National leaders realize the Articles of Confederation just aren't working. Getting popular support for real change proves difficult.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcri…
00:32:54 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
Rev250-003 Boston Massacre Oration of 1775
On the 5th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Joseph Warren delivers the oration remembering the massacre of March 5, 1770. The presence of British officers in the audience, combined with the tensi…
00:07:28 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
ARP344 Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Congress struggles to find a way to survey and populate its western territories. A group of former officers form the Ohio Company and lobby for an insider deal that will sell some of the prime land …
00:32:20 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Rev250-002 Conciliatory Resolution
In late February, 1775, Prime Minister, Lord North gets Parliament to support a supposed compromise bill that is actually designed to shore up support in Parliament for the coming war in America.
Lea…
00:06:57 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
AR-SP30 Defending Fort Stanwix, with Larry Kidder
Author Larry Kidder joins us to discuss his latest book Defending Fort Stanwix, a fort on the western frontier of New York that contributed to the ultimate surrender of the British Army at Saratoga i…
00:58:49 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Rev250-001 Leslie's Retreat
I'm trying something new this week.
This is a special supplemental episode that takes a look at events that happened 250 year ago this week. In this episode, we discuss the Salem Raid, also calle…
00:07:23 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
ARP343 Shays' Rebellion
Massachusetts farmers feel the squeeze caused by excessive taxes to pay down war debt and a shortage of money in circulation. With the laws set up to benefit wealthy eastern merchants, to the detrime…
00:32:41 |
Sun 16 Feb 2025
ARP342 Paper Money Riot
Years of issuing paper money to finance the Revolutionary War continued in the post war era. By 1786, farmers in debt wanted to continue paper money policies that would make it easier to pay their d…
00:31:49 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
ARP341 Annapolis Convention
The end of the war brought its own difficulties. The states no longer felt a strong need to remain united, and no one wanted to repay their war debts. In September, 1786, a group of nationalists me…
00:31:07 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
AR-SP29 Round Table, Gone for a Soldier
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01:12:18 |
Sun 26 Jan 2025
ARP340 The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson drafts a bill to prevent Virginia Tax dollars from being used to support the state church, Anglicanism in the colonial era. The church itself rebrands itself as the Episcopal Church…
00:33:46 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
ARP339 Hopewell Treaties
The Continental Congress entered into treaties with the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes.
Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links rela…
00:33:07 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
ARP338 Adams Goes to London
With the war ended, American attention shifts away from Europe while European attention shifts from America. US delegates attempt to establish a foreign policy with free trade, only to fund the majo…
00:34:10 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
AR-SP28 Round Table Event: Tea Hysteria & Fort Wm and Mary
Our audio recording from our American Revolution Roundtable for December 2024. We talk about the anti-tea hysteria that swept America following the Boston Tea Party. We also discuss the New Hampshire…
01:05:24 |
Sun 29 Dec 2024
ARP337 Mount Vernon Conference
George Washington began what he thought would be his retirement in 1784. Following a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette that year, Washington put aside retirement to return to his lifelong dream of …
00:32:11 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
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