The Road to the American Revolution, Part Two
Hillsdale Dialogues
Hillsdale College
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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This week: The history of the Minutemen, the Boston Tea Party, and the Enlightenment. Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington operations and dean of Hillsdale in D.C.’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues.
Release date: 12 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books, |
| 0:11.1 | great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College |
| 0:18.1 | Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | Hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio. |
| 0:29.0 | Morning, glory and evening in grace, America. |
| 0:31.4 | That music means that the Hillsdale Dialogue is about to begin. |
| 0:36.3 | If you missed last week, you'll be a little bit surprised because Dr. Arne is off doing commencement things at Hillsdale, |
| 0:43.0 | but he lent us his magnificent dean of the Graduate School of Hillsdale's Graduate School of Statesmanship in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:50.3 | from his library, his study full of American Revolution revolutionary texts, to give us a couple of weeks, |
| 0:57.3 | we did part one last week, getting us up to about 1765. |
| 1:01.3 | How did America come to be? |
| 1:02.7 | Because the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord was two weeks ago in April, and here we are in May, Matt. |
| 1:10.6 | And not a lot of people know that we've begun celebrating the term that I can't say, |
| 1:15.9 | but it's our 250th birthday. |
| 1:17.8 | And it really did begin on April 19th. |
| 1:20.9 | I don't know what, it's not a centennial. |
| 1:24.3 | What do we call it? |
| 1:25.7 | Do you know the quintennial |
| 1:27.7 | semi quincentennial |
| 1:30.7 | which is why everyone now called it america 250 |
| 1:33.7 | okay america 250 by quintennial a mouthful |
| 1:37.3 | so we are celebrating our 250th |
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