People's History, Founding Myths, and the American Revolution

 

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TV and TEDx

Huzzah for Footnotes (TEDx Youth, November 11, 2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EOrWwf0EP8&list=PLSatVjzQd2dSJ6d1EPEPU61brMG8RTK-U

Founding Myths, keynote address to the Massachusetts Humanities Council, June 3, 2013
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FoundingMy

Revolution: A Success Story (TEDx Talk, December 2, 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFekGGggMlw

Creation of the Electoral College, David Library of the American Revolution, September 27, 2012, C-SPAN American History
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ChiefExe

Foundation of the American Polity, Fraunces Tavern, September 24, 2009, C-SPAN American History
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Polity

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, Politics and Prose Bookstore, May 22, 2009, C-SPAN Book TV
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Founder

A People’s History of the American Revolution (with Howard Zinn), Education Forum, Harvard University, April 25, 2001, C-SPAN Book TV
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/APeoples

 

Interviews

Interview on Executive Powers with the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/13/the-president-was-never-intended-to-be-the-most-powerful-part-of-government/?utm_term=.8ea9e0c1a41c

Interview with Reed College Magazine
http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/september2013/articles/features/raphael.html

Journal of the American Revolution: All Things Liberty
http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/10/12-questions-with-ray-raphael/

Archived Radio

“The Worcester Revolution of 1774,” talk given at the Worcester Historical Museum, March 13, 2014, in preparation for the reenactment on September 7, 2014.
http://www.bestrateofclimb.com/BROC-Audio-RayRaphael-WorcesterHistoricalMuseum3-13-14.mp3

NPR All Things Considered, July 4, 2010. "The Fourth Of July And Other Myths Of Independence"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128264123

Fox News Radio, July 4, 2010. "Fourth of July Special - Real Stories of the American Revolution" (track 1, first segment)
http://radio.foxnews.com/2010/07/07/audio-fourth-of-july-special-real-stories-of-the-american-revolution/#axzz0t1PqqsY7

AmericanHeritage.com. “American Mythbuster: A July 4 interview with Ray Raphael.”
http://www.americanheritage.com/blog/20077_4_1093.shtml

NPR Talk of the Nation. “Ray Raphael discusses his book The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord.”
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-54074363.html

North Coast Journal. “The People’s Historian.”
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/041201/cover0412.html

North Coast Journal in the News. “5 Questions for Ray Raphael.”
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/062906/QA0629.html

KGBH Forum. “Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and the Body of the People.”
http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3210

KQED Radio. “Forum with Michael Krasny.”
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R707041000

Alliance for Democracy. Video: “The Hidden History of the American Revolution.”
http://afd.mcn.org/AFDVideos.htm

Radio Free Maine. “A People’s History of Everything.”
http://www.radiofreemaine.com/RFMOtherVoices.html

WBAI.org. “Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past.” (Review)
http://wbai.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9747&Itemid=2

 
 
 
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