Coming Full Circle

The Podcast

Greetings all! And happy Fourth to my Patriot Friends, and unhappy Fourth to my Monarchist Friends.

This is episode 1 of my podcast on Why We Study History. From this podcast, which fits the the day’s event, we will travel back in episode 2, as we begin to answer the question, why do we study history? Of course, to understand the question, we have to review the history of humanity.

I will supply, for each episode, a reading list. Since I have written and presented quite a bit on the 10 Crucial Days period of the War for Independence, my reading list is fairly extensive.

The Reading List

Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Logistics and the Failure of the British Army in America, 1775-1783, by R Arthur Bowler

The Winter Soldiers by Richard M. Ketchum

1776 by David McCullough

General Hugh Mercer by Frederick English

Private Yankee Doodle by J.P. Martin

Baron von Steuben’s Revolutionary War Drill Manual by Frederick William Baron von Steuben

Washington’s Decision by Patrick Charles

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the American Revolution, by Alan Axelrod, Ph.D

Laura’s books on this event: both historical fiction

The Time Chair Diary, Big Battles in Trenton Covers both battles of Trenton

Mary Stumpf at the Battle of Princeton Covers the events, from 1775, to twenty years later.

I am offering paid subscriptions, beginning next week. I have truly come out of my temporary retirement to care for my grandsons. They grow, rapidly, and so do I.