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Been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats called [ speaking Foreign Language ] anybody take french . This is april 1775, right after lexington and concord, through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase. And this is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . They havent really started fightin...

[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morn...

Okay, everybody. Last class we were talking about outbreak of the American Revolution. We say all this. Tension is building in the spring of 1775 in april, general thomas gage sends troops into the country side, fighting breaks out at lexington and concord. As night falls about 20,000 americans descend on boston, lay siege to the city in this war nobody wants, been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats call anybody take french . Am i pronouncing it right . Proba...

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Thank you so much Nathan Alfred tate again. Thank you all so much for tuning in and please catch us at the next program and also, come to the museum come visit. To watch online, anytime a cspan. Org history. This date of history explores why and how things happen and sometimes it seems these familiars are revealed and his new book liberty, he seeks out the Hidden History of American Revolution. He is more than a thousand eyewitness accounts to constructive history and many of those are freely Av...

The Robbins House was a Historic House built sometime in the 1820s that was originally owned by the children of caesar robbins, a former enslaved man from the area. He is believed to of been born around 1785, possibly in chelmsford. We actually do not know a lot of fact about his life, so we have to examine the lives of other slave men and women from the same era and drug details theiretails from experiences. We do not know if he was born into a life of slavery. Its possible but also possible he...

Of threethe story generations of African Americans and their fight for civil rights. It started in the 18th century. Every year, no needs of people visit this northbridge and many of them also visit the robbins hunter. One of the most surprising response is that many people were unaware that slavery existed in the north. Many believe that it was a Southern Institution and that the racial problems that extended from slavery came from the south. Are not only anthemic in the north but also continue...

Of threethe story generations of African Americans and their fight for civil rights. It started in the 18th century. Every year, no needs of people visit this northbridge and many of them also visit the robbins hunter. One of the most surprising response is that many people were unaware that slavery existed in the north. Many believe that it was a Southern Institution and that the racial problems that extended from slavery came from the south. Are not only anthemic in the north but also continue...

Here is the recent program. Every year millions of people visit northbridge and minuteman historical park. Many of them visit the robin house. Many people were unaware slavery existed in the north. Many people believe slavery was entirely a Southern Institution and that the racial problems that stem from an existed only in the american south. The Robbins House reminds people that those problems and issues not only were endemic in the north but also that they continue all the way through the pres...

Public service by americas and Television Companies is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. An american hour, cities tv exclusive, our tour visit says concord, massachusetts, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For six years, weve traveled to cities bringing the literary scene. The bridge that arched the unfurled, here nce the battle farmers stood and heard the shot heard round the world. Historical park was established to celebrate the april that took ...