271 BFW Team Favorites: Paul Revere's Ride Through History
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts to spread the alarm that the Regulars were marching. Revere made several important rides between 1774 and 1775, including one in September 1774 that brought the Suffolk Resolves to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
So why is it that we remember Paul Revere’s ride to Lexington and not any of his other rides?
Why is it that we remember Paul Revere on the night of April 18, 1775 and nothing about his life either before or after that famous ride?
Why is it that Paul Revere seems to ride quickly into history and then just as quickly out of it?
In this episode we speak with four scholars to explore Paul Revere’s ride through history.
This episode originally posted as Episode 130.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/271
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:17.0 | The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our |
| 0:22.1 | early American past have shaped the present |
| 0:24.3 | day world we live in. |
| 0:25.8 | And I'm your host, Liz Kovart. |
| 0:28.8 | Over the past three episodes, I've introduced you to three of my teammates on the |
| 0:32.5 | O'Mohandro Institute's Digital Projects team and we've been listening to |
| 0:36.1 | and exploring some of their favorite episodes. Well today I'd like to share one of my |
| 0:40.8 | favorite episodes with you. Now for me a favorite episode has |
| 0:44.6 | everything to do with some improvement I've made or audio skill I've picked up. In |
| 0:48.2 | episode 130 Paul Revere's Ride through History is an episode where I both improved my audio skills and finally figured out how to execute a narrative episode. |
| 0:58.0 | Now Paul Revere's Ride Through History was part ofohandro Institute's Doing History to the Revolution series. |
| 1:05.0 | Our goal in that series was to investigate not just the history of the |
| 1:09.4 | American Revolution, but the histories of the American Revolution. |
| 1:13.0 | In episode 130, our mission was specifically to investigate and answer questions |
| 1:18.0 | about Paul Revere and our memory of Paul Revere. |
| 1:21.0 | I mean, if you really think about it, |
| 1:24.0 | Paul Revere was at best a B or C list actor |
| 1:26.6 | in the revolution. |
| 1:27.8 | And yet, history remembers him. |
| 1:30.9 | But why? |
| 1:32.0 | Why does history remember Paul Revere? |
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