GETTING CURIOUS | What Was Early America Like Around the Revolutionary War? with Dr. Jessica Roney

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How did we come to be the United States of America? What was life like in Philadelphia and Boston leading up to the Revolutionary War? Jonathan sits down with Dr. Jessica Roney, Associate Professor of History at Temple University, to find out these answers and more. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a
0:06.2	40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that I'm
0:10.2	V curious about. On today's episode I I'm joined by Dr. Jessica Roney,
0:13.9	Associate Professor of History at Temple University.
0:16.8	I'm trying to figure out,
0:18.1	how did we come to be the United States of America,
0:20.9	what was life like in Philadelphia, what was going on in Boston, in the Revolutionary
0:25.1	War and leading up to it.
0:30.5	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness Ness and this week I'm so excited to welcome Dr Jessica Roney.
0:36.6	I nailed your last name right? You did you said it right.
0:38.7	Yay. So you are an associate professor of history at Temple College of Liberal Arts, but you have
0:46.4	studied lots of really important things.
0:49.2	Interesting things.
0:49.8	Your expertise is got a lot of commas.
0:54.0	Lay your commas of expertise on us.
0:57.0	Well, I mean, the general over umbrella over at all
1:01.0	is that I am an expert in early America. So that could be kind of
1:05.1	of 1600 to 18-20 in pretty large geography because early America is pretty vast.
1:11.5	Right. So basically you're an expert in early America and
1:16.4	and my theme for today's episode is and I want to make this into like a new genre of
1:21.0	getting curious episode you guys so get excited.
1:23.2	It's like what was it like to live in Philadelphia in the in the turn of the like
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