Revolutionary War

Podcast: The Culture of Dance in RevWar with Jeanette Watts

Historyman presents the Culture of Dance in the Revwar with Jeanette Watts. There were no football games.  Baseball and soccer hadn’t even been invented.  Video games?—they didn’t have electricity!  What did the people do for entertainment?  They danced.  Author Jeanette Watts explains that dance was the entertainment of the day.  One’s refinement and status in

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Mary, Soldier Tom and other family at Thomas Sumter’s house when the British arrive in May 1780:

A cursory review of “Thomas Sumter” by Anne King Gregory and “African-American Patriots in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution” by Bobby G. Ross and Michael C Scoggins reveals some interesting facts about the home of one of the heroes of the War of Independence in South Carolina. Thomas Sumter, also known as the

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Podcast: Fort Ninety Six, the Last Battle and the Aftermath with Rick Morris

Historyman presents the fourth in a series of episodes on Fort Ninety Six, SC.  Rick Morris relates the last battle at the fort where Nathaniel Greene, Andrew Pickens, Light Horse Harry Lee and others converge on Ninety Six to confront the British garrison.  Siege warfare, Mayhem towers, cannon, tunnels and hand to hand fighting mark

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