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Founders Unwound

Founders Unwound

著者： Alan Best
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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.

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  • All Men Are Created Equal - The Declaration of Independence and the Promise America Has Spent Two and a Half Centuries Trying to Keep

    All Men Are Created Equal - The Declaration of Independence and the Promise America Has Spent Two and a Half Centuries Trying to Keep
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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.

    In Episode Three of Founding Unwound, Harry and Amanda dig into the Declaration of Independence — not as a monument, but as a document. Where the words came from. What Jefferson actually meant. What was written and then deleted. Who those words included in 1776, and who they did not. And how generation after generation — people the Declaration never mentioned — picked up that language and used it to demand that America become what it had promised to be.

    This is the most philosophically rich episode of the season so far. No shortcuts. No comfortable answers. Just the document, the man who wrote it, and two and a half centuries of Americans wrestling with both.

    Hosted by Alan Best. Featuring Amanda and Harry.

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  • The Shot Heart Round the World

    The Shot Heart Round the World
    2026/07/10

    Episode Title: The Shot Heard Round the World

    Founders Unwound — Season One

    April 19, 1775. A cold morning. A silent green in Lexington, Massachusetts. And a single gunshot that nobody has ever been able to explain.

    No one knows who fired first. Not the British. Not the colonial militia standing across from them in the mist. But by the time the smoke cleared, eight American men were dead, and a war that would create a nation had begun.

    This was not the story you read in a textbook. This was farmers and tradesmen — untrained, outnumbered, and staring down the most powerful army on Earth — making a decision that changed history before they even understood what they were deciding.

    In this episode, we unwind the real events of Lexington and Concord — the confusion, the courage, and the mystery that still surrounds the first shot of the American Revolution.

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  • The Breaking Point - How a Shot in the Pennsylvania Wilderness Set the World on Fire

    The Breaking Point - How a Shot in the Pennsylvania Wilderness Set the World on Fire
    2026/07/02

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