155 Pauline Maier's American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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How much can the work of one historian impact how we view and study the American Revolution? We investigate the answer to this question by exploring the life and work of Pauline Maier, a historian who spent her life researching and investigating the American Revolution. Over the course of her lifetime, Maier wrote four important books about the American Revolution: From Resistance to Revolution, The Old Revolutionaries, American Scripture, and Ratification. Mary Beth Norton, Joanne Freeman, Todd Estes, and Lindsay Chervinsky join us as we journey through Maier’s body of work to better understand the American Revolution and how one historian can impact how we view and study history. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/155 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute William and Mary Quarterly OI Reader App William and Mary Quarterly-Journal of the Early Republic joint issue on the American Revolution special discount Complementary Episodes Episode 007: Sara Georgini, John Adams and the Adams Papers Editorial Project Episode 031: Benjamin Franklin and the Papers of Benjamin Franklin Editorial Project Episode 074: Mary Wigge, Martha Washington Episode 098: Gautham Rao, Birth of the American Tax Man Episode 112: Mary Beth North, The Tea Crisis of 1773 Episode 123: Revolutionary Allegiances Episode 141: A Declaration in Draft Episode 143: Michael Klarman, The making of the United States Constitution Episode 152: Bernard Bailyn, Origins of the American Revolution Helpful Show Links Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App *Books purchased through this link will help support the production of Ben Franklin's World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Ben Franklin's world and the Doing History to the Revolution series comes from the
0:04.9	Omaha Institute.
0:06.7	Proud Publishers of the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal of Early American
0:10.2	history since 1943. The critical debates on independence in the Second Continental Congress were in early June and for two days they debated it very seriously.
0:21.0	And then essentially they decided that although they seem to have a
0:25.9	majority for it they really needed to be unanimous and if they delayed the vote that they
0:31.6	thought they would be closer to unanimity. I mean you don't go out and
0:36.0	fight the greatest military power in the world unless you have your ducks in line so to speak.
0:42.0	What they approved on July 4th was the text and then they had
0:47.2	printed immediately the Dunlap broadside which people can see it's in
0:51.4	printed in block letters.
0:52.9	There is no signature except John Hancock's name appears on the bottom and Charles Thompson
0:58.6	attesting to the signature of John Hancock.
1:01.8	Who served as president of that that was the president of the Congress
1:04.6	but you don't see signatures all you see are the block letters because it's
1:09.2	printed okay I mean it's printed in block letters.
1:14.0	That was sent out.
1:15.4	That was sent out broadly.
1:16.7	So the text of the declaration was broadly disseminated.
1:20.1	This is why, you know, it's possible to say this is a press release and that's circulated largely
1:25.4	domestically they do send a copy to Silas Dean in France with orders to give it to the French
1:31.4	court but Congress doesn't do it, is done by a committee and they do it in the
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