On this episode of Our American Stories Phillis Wheatley the first published black poet has the remarkable distinction of being invited to meet with King George III and George Washington Leslie Johnson of the American Village tells her story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories King George III was not the mad king who lost the colonies says renowned historian David McCullough He was a king and did lose the most prosperous land on Earth just as the British Empire was building up steam Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Phillis Wheatley the first published black poet has the remarkable distinction of being invited to meet with King George III and George Washington Leslie Johnson of the American Village tells her story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

In the hit musical Hamilton England rsquo s King George III is humorously portrayed as a cartoonish deranged villain However a new biography on King George said he was not the tyrant described in Hamilton or America rsquo s Declaration of Independence If George had been the brutal despot that Americans said he was he would have stopped their drive for independence with extreme scorched-earth measures But he was restrained by his ldquo civilized good-natured rdquo temperament Who knows if King George died with regret Would his reign have been more successful if he rsquo d been harsher with his [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories American history hasn't been kind to our last king He's viewed as a tyrant and the Declaration of Independence claims he was unfit to lead a free people The truth is more complicated British historian Andrew Roberts tells the story of King George III Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories American history hasn't been kind to our last king He's viewed as a tyrant the Declaration of Independence claims that he was unfit to lead a free people and the musical Hamilton paints him as a brute The truth is anything but this English historian Andrew Roberts tells the story of King George III and why he isn't the man he's often portrayed to be Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories Phillis Wheatley the first published black poet has the remarkable distinction of being invited to meet with both King George III and George Washington Lesli Johnson of the American Village tells her story Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]