Season 4, Episode 3 | How Do You Govern When You’re Also Fighting a War?
About this episode
The episode explores the challenges of governance in America between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, focusing on the Articles of Confederation.
When we talk about America's founding, we tend to jump straight from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. But what held the country together in the eleven years between? What happened after independence was declared? Who ran the war? Who paid for the army? And how did thirteen quarreling states manage to hold together long enough to win? In this episode, co-hosts Savannah Eccles Johnston and Matthew Brogdon dive into the much-maligned Articles of Confederation, the nation’s fi...
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- Season 4, Episode 6 | When Americans Fought Americans: The Southern Campaign of the Revolution
- Season 4, Episode 5 | The Fourth-of-July Question America Needs to Ask
- Season 4, Episode 4 | Valley Forge: When the Revolution Almost Froze to Death
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