Category: American Revolution
Fort Morgan, Colorado
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/10/28Oct24-Fort-Morgan-Colorado.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This area of northeastern Colorado has long been an important place for farming. The way it developed was a bit…
A Bell That Took Time to Become Famous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/04Jul18-Liberty-Bell.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)July 4th, 1776. It’s Indpendence Day in the United States and one of the symbols of our freedom is the…
How a Sixteen Year Old Saved the United States
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/21May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Where did the American Revolution end? Why Wheeling, West Virginia of course–when a sixteen year old girl saved the newly…
A String A Battles on the Western Frontier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/02/20May15-Wheeling-Revolution-2015-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s a chapter of the American Revolution that few know today–a string of battles fought on what was then the…
Six D.C. Sites to Visit During a Government Shutdown
I was just in the nation’s capital gathering audio for our daily broadcasts. For tourists, the government shutdown means many of the sites they planned…
The Truth About Paul Revere’s Famous Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/07/08Jul13-Paul-Revere.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…
Fact vs Fiction of the Famous Ride
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in…
A Famous Dentist
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/Paul-Revere-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)He’s probably the most famous dentist that helped win the Revolutionary War. You might not know he cleaned teeth, but…
British or Revolutionary?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Pauls-Church-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Lutheran–there are many labels that may be placed on churches. However, during the early years of this…
St. Paul’s Church
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/08/St-Pauls-Church-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Just outside of New York City proper, yet well within the urban corridor, sits a church in the suburb of…
Vincennes Rendevous
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/05/Vincennes-Rendevous1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two…
Raising An Army at Harvard
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Longfellow-21.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.4KB)Today Harvard is recognized as one of the top universities in the world. In 1775, it became the home of…
What Happened to the Loyalists?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Longfellow-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 939.4KB)When the American revolution began, there were many living in the colonies that remained loyal to the king. In many…
