123: Revolutionary Allegiances (Doing History Rev)
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2017
⏱️ 94 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In December 1773, the Cape Cod Tea Crisis revealed that the people of “radical” Massachusetts were far from united in their support for the American Revolution. An observation that leads us to wonder: How many Americans supported the Patriot cause?
In this episode we speak with four scholars to explore the complexities of political allegiance during the American Revolution.
Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/123
About the Series
The mission of episodes in the Doing History: To the Revolution series is to ask not just “what is the history of the American Revolution?” but “what are the histories of the American Revolution?”
Episodes in this series will air beginning in Fall 2017.
The Doing History series is part of a partnership between Ben Franklin’s World and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Be sure to check out Doing History season 1: Doing History: How Historians Work.
Bonus Content
Complementary Episodes
- Episode 007: Sara Georgini, John Adams and the Adams Papers Editorial Project
- Episode 014: Claudio Saunt, West of the American Revolution
- Episode 016: Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy
- Episode 018: Danielle Allen, Our Declaration
- Episode 025: Jessica Parr, The Invention of George Whitefield
- Episode 037: Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost
- Episode 085: Bonnie Huskins, American Loyalists in Canada
- Episode 088: Michael McDonnell, The History of History Writing
- Episode 112: Mary Beth Norton, The Tea Crisis of 1773
Helpful Show Links
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Support for Ben Franklin's world comes from the |
| 0:02.6 | Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture. Barbara Oberg is a |
| 0:07.0 | historian and documentary editor. She's worked on the papers of Thomas Jefferson |
| 0:10.9 | at Princeton and the papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale. |
| 0:14.0 | Today she serves as chair of the Omaha Institute's Executive Board, |
| 0:18.0 | which is a body that helps manage the Institute and its resources. |
| 0:22.0 | Barbara loves working for the OI and serving on its executive board. |
| 0:26.0 | Her passion for the organization and its work radiates from her voice. |
| 0:30.0 | In fact, I think you can hear her smiling as she relates what she enjoys most about her work with |
| 0:34.8 | the OI. |
| 0:35.8 | One of the best parts of serving as chair is being an ambassador, both for the Omaha |
| 0:40.8 | and for historical scholarship in general I think. |
| 0:44.5 | Sometimes I have to explain to people |
| 0:46.4 | that the Omahajandro Institute for Early American History |
| 0:49.4 | and Culture is not a close or a lead organization just for academics and scholars. |
| 0:55.0 | We also reach out to people who love history, to secondary school teachers, to public historians, |
| 1:01.2 | because we want to convey our excitement about the past to a |
| 1:05.0 | broad range of people and we've done that since our founding in 1943 I think. |
| 1:10.6 | We also thought that it was important to share the results of our scholarship |
| 1:15.0 | through the book program and through the William and Mary Quarterly and now of course |
| 1:19.6 | through the digital world. So one of the most, I think, exciting projects that we're now involved in are the podcast, |
| 1:26.6 | Doing History. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Liz Covart, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Liz Covart and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.