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Back to SearchPrince Hall: Founder of Black Freemasonry and Civil Rights Pioneer
Episode 13344
In 1770s Boston, colonists demanded liberty while denying it to their Black neighbors. Prince Hall, freed around 1770, challenged that contradiction …
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Paul Cuffe: Shipping Magnate, Civil Rights Pioneer, Visionary
Episode 13343
As a teenager during the American Revolution, Paul Cuffe ran the British blockade in a small open boat to deliver goods to Nantucket. By 1800, he was…
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Early American Currency: From Beaver Pelts to the Continental
Episode 13342
Before the U.S. dollar existed, colonists paid with wampum, tobacco, beaver pelts, and Spanish silver. This episode unpacks the chaotic, experimental…
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The Compromise of 1790: The Dinner That Created Washington, D.C.
Episode 13341
In the summer of 1790, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton sat down to a private dinner in New York that helped break a crippling…
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Nathanael Greene: The General Who Won by Losing Battles
Episode 13340
Raised in a strict Quaker household and turned down for an officer's commission because of a limp, Nathanael Greene became one of George Washington's…
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George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth: Saving His Command
Episode 13339
In the winter of 1777 and spring of 1778, George Washington was far from a marble monument. He was a vulnerable commander reeling from defeats, facin…
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The Siege of Boston 1775-1776: How Militias Trapped the British
Episode 13338
In 1775, the world's most powerful navy and an elite British army found themselves trapped and starving in Boston, hemmed in by a makeshift force of …
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Lord North: The Prime Minister Who Lost the American Colonies
Episode 13337
Frederick North, the second Earl of Guilford, is remembered as the man who lost America, but he was a highly capable administrator whose early succes…
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Lord Dunmore's Proclamation and Freedom in Revolutionary Virginia
Episode 13336
John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and last royal governor of Virginia, was no abolitionist, yet his desperate bid to keep power offered freedom…
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How Longfellow Turned Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Into a Legend
Episode 13335
When Paul Revere died in 1818, his obituary never mentioned a midnight ride. This episode explores how poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow transformed a …
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