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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

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33:20

ARP344 Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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2025/03/02

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 at a bargain price. Congress agrees and begins settlement in what will become the state of Ohio.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more resources related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787: A Bicentennial

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Rev250-002 Conciliatory Resolution

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2025/02/27

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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59:49

AR-SP30 Defending Fort Stanwix, with Larry Kidder

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2025/02/23

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 in 1777. Kidder discusses the siege, the related battle of Oriskany and why these events were so consequential to the war.If you would like to participate live in future events, please be sure to join my mailing list, or join as a member of the American Revolution Podcast on Patreon. Book: Defending

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7:23

Rev250-001 Leslie's Retreat

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2025/02/20

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 called Leslie's Retreat, which took place on February 26, 1775. Let me know if you would like more of these: mtroy.history@gmail.com For more on this topic, check out Episode 052. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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33:41

ARP343 Shays' Rebellion

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2025/02/16

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 detriment of the farmers, the farmers shut down the state government in protest.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more resources related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion: An American Story, by Daniel

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32:49

ARP342 Paper Money Riot

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2025/02/09

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 debts. Merchant creditors opposed these policies. States that failed to address these demands often found themselves facing rioters who wanted to shut down the government.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more resources related to this week's episode. Book

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32:07

ARP341 Annapolis Convention

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2025/02/02

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 met quietly at Annapolis, supposedly to discuss trade and commerce issues. They ended up proposing holding another Convention in Philadelphia to discuss a broader range of problems with the Articles of Confederation.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more

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73:18

AR-SP29 Round Table, Gone for a Soldier

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2025/01/26

- - -Get the book: All Ye That Pass By: Book 1: Gone for a Soldier, by Avellina Balestri More about the author: https://avellinabalestri.com On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avellina.balestri To Receive Notice of future Roundtable Events on Zoom, Signup for the AmRev Podcast Mail List https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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34:46

ARP340 The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

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2025/01/19

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, but still hopes for state support. For years, the debate rages. After Jefferson leaves for France, James Madison takes up leadership on the fight, getting the Assembly to pass the bill in 1786.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related

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34:07

ARP339 Hopewell Treaties

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2025/01/12

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 related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Benjamin Hawkins: Indian Agent, by Merritt Pound Online Recommendation of the Week: Alexander McGillivray, The Last King of the Creeks, https://archive.org/details/alexandermcgilli00hend Join American Revolution Podcast

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35:10

ARP338 Adams Goes to London

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2025/01/05

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 major powers uninterested. Instead they struggle to keep American merchant ships from capture by Barbary pirates who enslave their crews.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: A

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AR-SP28 Round Table Event: Tea Hysteria & Fort Wm and...

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2024/12/29

Our audio recording from our American Revolution Roundtable for December 2024. We talk about the anti-tea hysteria that swept America following the Boston Tea Party. We also discuss the New Hampshire Militia raid on Fort William and Mary in December of 1774. To receive notices of future Roundtable events, which are held on Zoom, please be sure to add your email address to my mailing list using the link below: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy Learn more

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33:11

ARP337 Mount Vernon Conference

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2024/12/22

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

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35:54

ARP336 Planning the Northwest Territory

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2024/12/15

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

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32:56

ARP335 State of Franklin

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2024/12/08

Frustrated by the ill treatment of the eastern establishment. Three counties in western North Carolina vote for independence and form a new state named after Benjamin Franklin. They establish a new government, naming John Sevier as governor. North Carolina is not happy.Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession, by Kevin

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33:22

ARP334 Land Ordinance of 1784

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2024/11/17

Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode.Book Recommendation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham. Online Recommendation of the Week: Ohio in the time of the Confederation: https://archive.org/details/ohiointimeofconf03hulb Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions

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34:47

ARP333 Revolution and Slavery

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2024/11/10

At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this

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56:52

AR-SP27 Lord Dunmore's War Round Table

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2024/11/03

The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.For more on this topic, get a copy of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era, by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions). You can also listen to my summary of the war in Episode 44:

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33:44

ARP332 Society of the Cincinnati

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2024/10/27

In 1783, General Henry Knox proposes the establishment of a private organization for Continental officers called The Society of the Cincinnati. National leaders see the new group as a threat trying to undermine freedom and self-government. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Markus

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32:21

ARP331 Washington Goes Home

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2024/10/20

In November, 1783, Washington takes leave of his officers and the army after the British Depart New York. Washington makes his way to Annapolis to resign. Congress misses the arrival of the Dutch Ambassador and scrambles to get the final peace treaty ratified while accepting Washington's resignation. Finally a civilian, Washington arrives home at Mount Vernon on Christmas Eve, 1783. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this

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