The Will of the People with T.H. Breen
Revolution 250 Podcast
English - February 09, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHistory american revolution boston massachusetts new england Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The War for America with Rick Atkinson
Next Episode: True Inheritors of the Revolution's Legacy
Renowned scholar of the American Revolution, T.H. Breen joins us to discuss his . latest book, The Will of the People,: The Revolutionary Birth of America, the story of ordinary Americans who created the Revolution through their local communities. Professor Breen also talks about prisoners of war, and how his essay "Making History: The Force of Public Opinion and the Last Years of Slavery in Massachusetts," Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America was turned into a 2-act opera by the legendary T.J. Anderson & Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.