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Remembering the Boston Massacre, with Nat Sheidley (episode 174)
Remembering the Boston Massacre, with Nat Sheidley (episode 174)
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99 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2020
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Description
March 5th marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, when a party of British soldiers fired into a crowd of civilians, killing five. It was a terrible personal tragedy in a small town of 15,000 residents, and it almost immediately became politicized. Nat Sheidley, the president and CEO of Revolutionary Spaces, is going to remind us what happened on that terrible night, how tightly intertwined the lives of the soldiers and town residents were at the time, and how every generation reinterprets what the tragedy means.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/174
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory
Released:
Mar 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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