Revolution 250 Podcast

The Will of the People with T.H. Breen

February 09, 2021 T.H. Breen Season 2 Episode 6
Revolution 250 Podcast
The Will of the People with T.H. Breen
Show Notes

Renowned scholar of the American Revolution, T.H. Breen joins us to discuss his . latest book, The Will of the People,: The Revolutionary Birth of America, the story of ordinary Americans who created the Revolution through their local communities.  Professor Breen also talks about prisoners of war, and how his essay "Making History:  The Force of Public Opinion and the Last Years of Slavery in Massachusetts," Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America was turned into a 2-act opera by the legendary T.J. Anderson & Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.