The Birth of the United States (TRIH ep 349, part 3)
1776 · Resource
This episode — the third in The Rest Is History's American Revolution series — features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook with guest Adam Smith. They discuss the impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense (January 1776) and his later pamphlet The American Crisis, and situate Paine's rhetoric in wider transatlantic debates.
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Around 1776
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- French Revolution (1789)