Doing History
What is the history of the American Revolution? The answer is not simple.
While season 1 looked at how historians work, the mission of season 2, Doing History: To the Revolution, is to ask how different historians interpret the events and people at the center of the American Revolution and to help listeners see the connections—and possible disconnects—between the different approaches.
Episode 166: Freedom & the American Revolution
Season 2
Episode 166: Freedom & the American Revolution
Episode 165: The Age of Revolutions
Episode 164: Dubois, The American Revolution in the Age of Revolutions
Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America
Episode 162: David, Dunmore's New World: The Revolution and the British Empire
Episode 161: Smuggling and the American Revolution
Episode 160: The Politics of Tea
Episode 159: The Revolutionary Economy
Episode 158: The Revolutionaries' Army
Episode 157: The Revolution's African American Soldiers
Episode 156: Information and Communications
Episode 155: Pauline Maier's American Revolution
Episode 154: Barbara Clark Smith, The Freedoms We Lost
Episode 153: Committees and Congresses: Governments of the American Revolution
Episode 152: Origins of the American Revolution
Episode 151: Defining the Revolution
Episode 141: A Declaration in Draft
Episode 130: Paul Revere's Ride Through History
Episode 123: Revolutionary Allegiances
Episode 112: Mary Beth Norton, To the Revolution
Season 1
Bonus Episode: History and Historians in the Public
Episode 114: Karin Wulf, The History of Genealogy
Episode 110: Joshua Taylor, How Genealogists Research
Episode 105: Joshua Piker, How Historians Work
Episode 101: John Demos, How Historians Write
Episode 97: Billy Smith, How to Organize Your Research
Episode 92: Sharon Block, How to Research History Online
Episode 88: Michael McDonnell, The History of History Writing
Episode 84: Zara Anishanslin, How Historians Read Historical Sources
Episode 79: James Horn, What is a Historical Source
Episode 75: Peter Drummey, How Archives Work
Episode 70: Jennifer Morgan, How Historians Research
Episode 66: Simon Newman, How Historians Find Their Research Topics
The Declaration of Independence described “all men” as “created equal” when its authors knew they were not. So was the revolutionary idea of freedom dependent on slavery?
In this last episode of the Doing History: To the Revolution series we return to the place our series began: the world of Paul Revere. We speak with Christopher Cameron, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to discuss how Phillis Wheatley, Cesar Sarter and other black revolutionaries in Massachusetts grappled with the seeming paradox of American freedom as they fought to end slavery during the American Revolution.
Supporting this series helps to meet one of the chief aims of the Lapidus Initiative: to make more transparent the intensive and collaborative processes of developing and producing high-quality scholarship. It also offers us a new and exciting opportunity for public outreach.