
New Episode – 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, “April”
The infant colonial navy meets the mighty Brits.
The infant colonial navy meets the mighty Brits.
They would eventually come together to form the United States of America, but at the start of 1776, there wasn’t really a ‘typical’ American colonist.
They would eventually come together to form the United States of America, but at the start of 1776, there wasn’t really a ‘typical’ American colonist.
A failed corset-maker, fired from his second career as a tax collector, Thomas Paine could never seem to do anything right—until he published a pamphlet that would become the first ‘call to action’ in the American Revolution: Common Sense