Episodes
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
#1: The Whiskey Rebellion
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
Thursday Apr 27, 2017
In our debut episode, we discuss our podcast's namesake, the Whiskey Rebellion. Why did a bunch of farmers stage a rebellion over a whiskey tax? Why did the US government feel the need to raise a militia bigger than its standing army to put it down? And why is Alexander Hamilton not the hero that Lin-Manuel Miranda would have you believe?
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