325 Everyday People of the American Revolution

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform, and as a time of violence and upheaval? Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, joins us to explore and discuss answers to these questions so that we can better see and understand the American Revolution as a whole event. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/325 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 060: David Preston, Braddock’s Defeat 🎧 Episode 128: Alan Taylor: American Revolutions: A Continental History 🎧 Episode 144: Rob Parkinson, The Common Cause 🎧 Episode 150: Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator 🎧 Episode 152: Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 🎧 Episode 181: Max Edelson, The New Map of the British Empire 🎧 Episode 294: Mary Beth Norton, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution 🎧 Episode 296: Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:06.2	Omaha Institute and is sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Welcome to episode 325 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:24.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and
0:28.3	events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:32.1	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:34.8	What do we know about the American Revolution?
0:38.2	Why is it important that we see the Revolution
0:41.0	as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform,
0:45.5	and is a time of violence and upheaval. Woody Holton, a professor of history at
0:50.9	the University of South Carolina,
0:52.9	and an award-winning historian who specializes
0:55.3	in the history of the American Revolution,
0:57.4	joins us to explore and discuss answers
0:59.6	to these very questions.
1:01.5	Now, Woody has just published a massive book about the revolution. It's called
1:05.3	Liberty is Sweet, The Hidden History of the American Revolution. And between this
1:09.8	book's two covers, Woody presents the revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic
1:16.0	reform, and as a time of violence and upheaval.
1:19.4	And Liberty is sweet, Woody does his best to present the Revolution and all of its events together so that we can
1:25.4	better see the revolution and its participants and that's not a small task.
1:31.1	Now as we explore the revolution, Woody reveals what Woody sees is the primary cause of the American
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