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Happy Saturday.

Today is July 4th, 26th, which is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

here in the U.S.

So for today's Saturday classic, I wanted to pick something, at least related to the

Revolutionary War.

It is our episode about Sarah Bradley Fulton, who is sometimes called the mother of the Boston Tea Party.

This was recorded in the run-up to that 250th anniversary.

This episode originally came out on December 13, 2023.

Enjoy.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party is right around the corner on December 16th this year, which is 2023.

There have been various events related to this anniversary already leading up to a commemoration on the afternoon and evening of the 16th, and the plan for that is to culminate in a reenactment of dumping the British East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor.

There's an episode on the Boston Tea Party in the archive from way back in 2008 when the show

was only about six months old and was just almost a completely different podcast from

what it is now.

And while I definitely don't encourage people to take the name, stuff you missed in history class, completely, literally.

You can't really describe the Boston Tea Party as lesser known, at least not in the United States.

At the same time, I wanted to do something connected to all of this, and eventually I landed on Sarah Bradley Fulton, who is sometimes called

the mother of the Boston Tea Party. What we know about Sarah Bradley Fulton is kind of a series

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