Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 40-minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that I'm V. Curious

about. On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Jessica Roni, associate professor of history

at Temple University. I'm trying to figure out how did we come to be the United States

of America, what was life like in Philadelphia, what was going on in Boston, in the Revolutionary

War, and leading up to it.

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vaness and this week I'm so excited to welcome Dr.

Jessica Roni. I nailed your last name, right?

You did. You said it right.

Yeah. So you are an associate professor of history at Temple College of Liberal Arts, but you

have studied lots of really important things. Interesting things. Your expertise is got a lot of

commas. Lay your commas of expertise on us.

Well, I mean, the general umbrella of over at all is that I am an expert in early America. So

that could be kind of 1600 to 1820 in pretty large geography because early America is pretty vast.

Right. So basically you're an expert in early America. And my theme for today's episode is,

and I want to make this until like a new genre of getting curious episode you guys so get excited.

It's like what was it like to live in Philadelphia in the turn of the like when America became

America, which really the Revolutionary War was from 1770, 1612.

You know, you could say five, which is when the Battle of Lexington is or 76, which is when

the concert started in 76. Yes, of course. For some reason, I feel like it was 71 to 76. I don't

know why I do that. Well, 72 is when the Boston Tea Party was. So maybe maybe you're thinking

of like the protest. Okay. Okay. So yeah. So rewinding. So we had, you know, the people had come and

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