Founders Unwound
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 school.
Hosts Amanda and Harry bring you inside these events from two perspectives — an American curious about her country's origins and a British historian whose nation was on the other side of it all.
Founders Unwound
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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...
