128 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787.
But was the American Revolution an orderly event that took place only between Great Britain and her North American colonists? Was it really about high-minded ideas?
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor joins us to explore the American Revolution as a Continental event with details from his book, American Revolutions: A Continental History. 1750-1804.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Ben Franklin's world is brought to you by the Lancyplace.com. |
| 0:05.0 | We enjoy exploring the American Revolution and all of its complexities on this podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | And like us, the Lancyplace.com also enjoys exploring the revolution. |
| 0:14.0 | In fact, they enjoy exploring all sorts of revolutions. |
| 0:17.6 | In one of their free daily emails, Delanceyplace.com used details from Candacemillards, The River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey. Theeaugeau |
| 0:23.6 | Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey |
| 0:25.5 | to explore the lengths that Theodore Roosevelt went to |
| 0:28.0 | to build the Panama Canal. |
| 0:30.0 | Now, in 1903, a canal across Panama really promised to speed up shipping and travel between the Atlantic and Pacific by connecting the two oceans. |
| 0:38.0 | So when Roosevelt announced his plans for the canal and his hopes for the future, he was taken it back when |
| 0:44.0 | Columbia told him that, hey, the American people would have to pay $12 million for the right |
| 0:48.6 | to build the canal. |
| 0:50.1 | And that's because in 1903, Panama was still a Colombian state. |
| 0:54.0 | Now, Roosevelt balked at this demand. |
| 0:56.7 | He told his Secretary of State John Hay |
| 0:58.9 | that the United States should not allow the lot of jackrabbits |
| 1:02.1 | in Colombia to bar one of the future highways of civilization. |
| 1:05.3 | So he proceeded to quietly encourage and support the Panamanian Revolution which had been bubbling |
| 1:11.2 | under the surface for years. |
| 1:13.0 | Delaincyplace.com's excerpts about Roosevelt, the Canal, and the Panamanian Revolution |
| 1:18.6 | encourage us to think about the United States and the role it should or shouldn't play in supporting an inciting |
| 1:24.3 | revolution. |
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