Revolutions

3.9- What is the Third Estate? 15.09.2014 30:59 ↓

The debate over the coming Estates General awakened the political consciousness of the Third Estate. Also the weather was rotten. 

3.8- The Day of the Tiles 08.09.2014 26:22 ↓

The king's attempt to break the Parments in the summer of 1788 was was met by widespread resistence. 

3.6- The Stately Quadrille 25.08.2014 28:39 ↓

Round and round and round it goes...

3.5- The Assembly of Notables 17.08.2014 25:40 ↓

King Louis called the Assembly of Notables in early 1787 to approve a major fincancial reform package. But intead of rubber stamping the initiatives, the Notables scrutinized every detail. 

3.4- Necker and the Necklace 10.08.2014 26:53 ↓

Just as the financial situation was about to explode the monarchy was hit by a public relations nightmare.

3.3- Resistance to Reform 03.08.2014 27:18 ↓

As power passed from Louis XV to Louis XVI, royal ministers attempted to implement reforms, but were thewarted at every turn. 

3.2-The Broken Regime 20.07.2014 28:12 ↓

The Ancien Regime was a mess in desperate need of reform. 

3.1- The Three Estates 14.07.2014 27:12 ↓

The population of pre-Revolutionary France was divided into Three Estates: the Church, the Nobility and Everyone Else. 

3.0 Revolutions Podcast Update 14.07.2014 5:19 ↓

Tours. Episode Numbering. Money.  Parlez-vous français?

2.15a- The Bill of Rights 25.05.2014 3:40 ↓

Hang them on the wall of every classroom. 

2.15- The Rising Sun 25.05.2014 35:32 ↓

The ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights marks the end of the Revolutionary Era. 

2.14- The Critical Period 18.05.2014 29:33 ↓

Between the end of the War of Independence and the Constitutional Convention the new United States was plagued by problems. The Articles of Confederation were not up to solving them. 

2.13- The Articles of Confederation 12.05.2014 27:23 ↓

As the newly independent United States trasitioned from war to peace, it was tripped up by the ineffective Articles of Confederation. 

2.12- Yorktown 04.05.2014 27:06 ↓

Lord Cornwallis was trapped in Yorktown in October 1781. His surrender ended the American War of Independence. 

2.11- Tarleton's Quarter 27.04.2014 29:17 ↓

Despite the thrashing he gave Horatio Gates at the Battle of Camden, Lord Cornwallis found the Carolinas slipping out of his grasp. 

2.10- Turning South 22.04.2014 26:58 ↓

The Episode That Wouldn't Die.

2.9- Valley Forge 13.04.2014 29:23 ↓

After Saratoga the French joined the war, the British changed strategies and Washington's army spent a miserable winter at Valley Forge. 

2.8- Saratoga 30.03.2014 31:03 ↓

Gentleman Johnny's Party Train ran into some trouble in 1777. 

2.7- Crossing the Delaware 24.03.2014 28:28 ↓

With the revolution on the line, George Washginton led his army to victory at Trenton. Unfortunately he would be unable to stop the British from taking Philadelphia in 1777.   

2.6a- Supplemental The Declaration of Independence 16.03.2014 9:14 ↓

When in the course of human events...

2.6- Independence 16.03.2014 30:49 ↓

The American colonies declared independence in July 1776. Then their armies got chased around New York. 

2.5- The Guns of Ticonderoga 09.03.2014 29:53 ↓

After the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, war between Britain and the colonies broke out. George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief and laid siege to Boston.

2.4- The Boston Tea Party 03.03.2014 27:24 ↓

The Boston Tea Party led Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts in 1774. The colonists were really super not amused. 

2.3- The Townshend Acts 23.02.2014 27:29 ↓

After the failure of the Stamp Act, Parliament passed a new series of taxes known as the Townshend Acts. The colonists were not amused.