Jul 02 2009

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation

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foundersAs we approach this year’s Independence Day, red-white-and-blue flags are popping up on fences and store windows, many of you are probably making plans for weekend barbeques and fireworks viewings. Some media outlets are already reminding us of the historical origins of America’s Declaration of Independence and history-book figures such as George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams. These men, known collectively as the founding fathers, are credited with bequeathing us a nation. But of course, it was far more complicated than that. There were many more individual contributions including those of women that have gone unrecognized. And there was slavery and the obliteration of Native Americans. In a new book that greatly expands the history of 1770s America, author and historian Ray Raphael tells the stories of seven figures, most of whom we have never heard of.

GUEST: Ray Raphael, author of Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation. His earlier books include Founding Myths, and a People’s History of the American Revolution.

For more information, visit http://www.rayraphael.com/Founders.htm.

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