Alan Best

Founders Unwound

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The Breaking Point — How a Shot in the Pennsylvania Wilderness Set the World on Fire. In 1754, a 22-year-old Virginia militia officer named George Washington fired a volley in the forests of Pennsylvania that a British politician later said "set the world on fire." That single event set off a chain reaction — a world war, a bankrupt British empire, a taxation crisis — that made the American Revolution not just possible, but inevitable. This is American history told honestly. No myth. No agenda. Just the real story — messier, more complicated, and more extraordinary than anything you learned in...

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Alan Best

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The Long War - From Delaware to Yorktown 26.10.2026 23:49

Founders Unwound — E04 Episode Title: The Long War — From the Delaware to Yorktown From Revolution to Republic — How America Was Made At approximately eleven o'clock on the night of December 25th, 1776, George Washington began loading the remnant of his Continental Army into Durham boats on the Pennsylvania bank of the Delaware River. It was snowing. The river was running with ice. The temper...

All Men Are Created Equal - The Declaration of Independence and the Promise America Has Spent Two and a Half Centuries Trying to Keep 02.08.2026 25:18

In the summer of 1776, a thirty-three-year-old Virginia lawyer sat in rented rooms in Philadelphia and wrote a sentence that would define a nation — and haunt it. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. In Episode Three of Founding Unwound, Harry and Amanda dig into the Declaration of Independence — not as a monument, but as a document. Where the words came from. W...

The Shot Heart Round the World 10.07.2026 25:25

Episode Title: The Shot Heard Round the World Founders Unwound — Season One April 19, 1775. A cold morning. A silent green in Lexington, Massachusetts. And a single gunshot that nobody has ever been able to explain. No one knows who fired first. Not the British. Not the colonial militia standing across from them in the mist. But by the time the smoke cleared, eight American men were dead, and a wa...

The Breaking Point - How a Shot in the Pennsylvania Wilderness Set the World on Fire 02.07.2026 26:15