Ep. 502 The Stamp Act, 250 Years Later
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Historian Kevin Gutzman joins us to discuss the Stamp Act, passed by the British Parliament 250 years ago this year, and what it meant for American history. Plenty of Patrick Henry, too.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 502. |
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| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.1 | slash code. Welcome to episode 5002. Tom Woods here. Today we're talking about the Stamp Act, because |
| 0:35.1 | believe it or not, it's been 250 years since the Stamp |
| 0:39.6 | Act was passed by the British Parliament. Of course, we all know about the American |
| 0:43.0 | resistance to it. So we're going to talk about that and what it all meant with our friend |
| 0:48.4 | Kevin Gutzman. Kevin Gutzman, of course, is Professor of History and Chairman of the Department |
| 0:53.4 | of History at Western Connecticut State University. |
| 0:56.3 | He's the author of James Madison and The Making of America. |
| 1:00.3 | He's also the author of the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. |
| 1:04.7 | He and I wrote a book together called Who Killed the Constitution. |
| 1:08.3 | You can find out more about Kevin at Kevin Goodsman.com. That's G-U-T-Z-M-A-N. |
| 1:15.2 | Kevin is a faculty member at my libertyclassroom.com, where you can learn the history and economics |
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| 1:38.4 | people who feel like I want to know real history. I want to know real economics, and there are a million books, and I'll never learn it if I don't have a systematic presentation of it that I can get to while I'm driving or doing something else. And that's why I devised Liberty Classroom. It's expanded like crazy, huge amount of material there. It is a steel what you're getting, and it's an even bigger steel if you use coupon code show in all caps when you're over at Liberty Classroom.com. |
| 2:05.3 | Let's welcome Kevin back to the show right now. Kevin, thanks for being here. |
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