You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello and thank you for joining me on my new project a journey through the

American Revolution. This is episode one and introduction.

Today I embark on a new project to describe the entire American Revolution in detail.

My plan is to make this a multi-year project covering all aspects of the

revolution. To some extent, I'm going to see where this project leads me, but I

figure it's worth trying to say at the beginning where I think I'm going with all of this.

I don't mean this to become an academic work full of footnotes and sources.

I want to tell the story of the revolution in a conversational way.

Each episode will be available both as a recorded podcast and in a written version.

Although I really hope you will listen to the podcasts rather than just read the related articles,

the written version may help some people who want to look up something quickly.

The written version will also include some helpful maps and other illustrations on the topic.

I will also add links to suggested reading materials at the bottom of each episode.

Some of these are sources that I've used in writing the episode, others may simply be interesting works that relate to the topic of the day.

I'm allowing I hope to produce one episode each week.

In each episode I will take a look at a specific event

from the war.

I will try to keep each episode to around 20 minutes, give or take.

Each episode should be a story that can stand on its own. My plan is to move

through the revolution in more or less chronological order. Now if you're looking for a short overview of the revolution, you're in the wrong place.

My goal is to dig deeper into events large and small to create a better picture of what really

happened. At the same time I'm probably not going to

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