#128 A Frail League of Friendship: The Articles of Confederation w/ Greg Jackson
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In 1776, the US declared independence. Eleven years later, in 1787, delegates from 12 states (we're looking at YOU Rhode Island) got together in Philadelphia and wrote the Constitution. In between those triumphant moments, there was the Articles of Confederation, that "firm league of friendship" that most Americans probably know primarily as something they had to memorize for a history test.
HOWEVER
The Articles of Confederation, while certainly not a highlight of the American experiment, explain a lot about the American Revolution, the ideas that defined the founding generation, and the ways those ideas changed in the first years of independence. In fact, you can't really understand the US Constitution unless you understand the Articles and why they failed.
SO
In this episode, Bob and Ben speak with Greg Jackson about this very topic. Greg is Assistant Professor of Integrated Studies at Utah Valley University and host of the podcast History That Doesn't Suck. We hope you enjoy our conversation on the Articles of Confederation!
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| 0:00.0 | Osiris. |
| 0:01.0 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:14.0 | This is Mike Finoa, host of Amigos podcast here on the Osiris Network. |
| 0:18.0 | What is Amigos podcast? |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I am a stand-up comedian, writer for true TVs and practical jokers, and a music freak. |
| 0:26.3 | So I invite my pals to come talk music, comedy, and everything in between. |
| 0:31.0 | So if you want to come hang, we'd love to have you. |
| 0:34.1 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:52.6 | What's great is there are people out there who are good historians and who are trying to bring understanding on how these things came to be. |
| 0:57.0 | And one of them is our guest tonight, today, our guest tonight, our guest for this episode of The Roads Now. |
| 1:07.0 | His name is Greg Jackson. He has a wonderful podcast called History That Doesn't Suck. |
| 1:16.6 | That's right. |
| 1:17.7 | And we can confirm that his history doesn't suck and that this episode was awesome because we recorded it already. |
| 1:24.4 | You haven't heard it yet. |
| 1:25.1 | You guys who are listening right now, you can't be sure, but we're sure. And oh my God, this was great. All I want to do is have him back on again. Man, he is under the category of new best friend. Yeah. Like he loves history like we do. And he does a podcast and he's the same boat that I'm in, which is like, oh, you work at a university and And they're like, yeah, it's like, so what do you do? |
| 1:45.1 | It's like I teach people and also have a podcast that thousands of people listening to. |
| 1:48.3 | And you're like, cool. |
| 1:49.2 | So I bet the university loves that, right? And they're like, no, they love the one part. But like this podcast thing, they're like, that's neat and everything. Well, I'll tell you, he's a professor. |
| 1:58.7 | Greg is a professor at Utah Valley University. |
| 2:02.1 | And every episode, |
| 2:04.6 | first of all, you know, Ben and I, for the most part, we speak and we're winging it. We're just |
| 2:10.1 | like saying the first thing that comes off the top of our head. You know, we edit this. We have |
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