Kristen Blackstone
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Kristen Blackstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Historians after the war, the new government after the war are telling the story about the revolution.
They don't want to tell a story that is rooted in extreme violence, particularly violence that they perpetrated.
And so what happens is in these new national histories, the violence of British soldiers, the violence of Native Americans, of loyalists are emphasized.
Stories about patriot violence, about violence perpetrated by the Continental Army or by the patriot militia.
are left to one side.
They're not things that you emphasize for the story of a new nation.
It's not something they want to emphasize.
The war happened and that's now behind us.
We're going to move into our new chapter as the United States, as a non-radical, non-violent nation.
It doesn't look anything like an army.
They are drinking, they are gambling, they are firing their guns off as they please at target practice.
And so George Washington tries incredibly hard to turn this gaggle of people into a functioning army.
It doesn't go well.
He's met with a lot of resistance.
There's quite a lot of mass desertion.
During the war, he routinely deferred to civilian authority in the Continental Congress, because this is a real concern of people in the American colonies.
The British Army, they view as this body of tyranny, and he was very clear that the Continental Army couldn't become that.
The city of Boston essentially goes on lockdown, right?
Martial law is enacted.
The British are now occupying the city as opposed to living in the city.
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