153 Committees and Congress: Governments of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

How did the American revolutionaries organize and coordinate local, provincial, and intercolonial action?

How did the revolutionaries form governments?

In this episode of the Doing History: To the Revolution series we explore governance and governments of the American Revolution with three scholars: Mark Boonshoft, Benjamin Irvin, and Jane Calvert.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/153

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Complementary Blog Post

• William Huntting Howell, "The Committee of Correspondence and the War at Home"

Complementary Episodes

• Episode 112: Mary Beth Norton, The Tea Crisis of 1773
• Episode 123: Revolutionary Allegiances
• Episode 129: J.L. Bell, The Road to Concord
• Episode 130: Paul Revere’s Ride Through History
• Episode 134: Spencer McBride, Pulpit and Nation
• Episode 141: A Declaration in Draft
• Episode 143: Michael Klarman, The Making of the United States Constitution
• Episode 144: Robert Parkinson, The Common Cause of the American Revolution
• Episode 152: Bernard Bailyn, Origins of the American Revolution

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