Episode 6: May 25-31
How We Got Here
English - May 25, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBHistory News revolutionarywar civilwar history historypodcast howwegothere nbc12 news racheldepompa richmond virginia Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode of How We Got Here – The birth of Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The day the Robert E. Lee monument is unveiled in a field west of the city to a crowd of thousands of Confederate veterans. How it’s meaning has evolved over the last 130 years.
The day the world stopped in Virginia Beach - how the heroes among us emerged at yet another tragedy.
And the birth of a man who fanned the flames of the American Revolution. “Give me liberty, or give me death.”