Two hundred and fifty years ago, a handful of farmers, merchants, lawyers, preachers, smugglers, and stubborn troublemakers looked at the most powerful empire on earth and quietly began asking a dangerous question: what if government exists to serve the people, instead of the people existing to serve government? That question changed the world.
But the road to independence did not begin with muskets at Lexington or signatures in Philadelphia. It began much earlier, in taverns thick with argument, in sermons warning about liberty and tyranny, in newspapers filled with outrage, and in ordinary people slowly realizing they no longer thought of themselves the same way. Piece by piece. Law by law. Grievance by grievance.
This series is not just about battles or famous names. It is about ideas. About standing armies in city streets. About taxes and consent. About kings, crowds, mobs, Parliament, pamphlets, and the eternal struggle between power and liberty. It is about human beings trying to decide whether freedom is worth the cost that always comes with it.
And because history is never just dates on a page, we are telling this story through music. Songs that sound like the Revolution felt, hopeful, angry, frightened, defiant, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always human.
This is Liberty 250.
The road to July 4th, 1776.
And the story of how Americans learned to think like Americans.
The second set of songs from Dave and the Liberty 250 episodes…
Yankee Doodle
Standing in Our Streets
Evacuation Day
George’s Concurrence
Oh, Canada…
Rome to Home
The Word
Safety & Happiness
It’s Not Us, It’s you
The Ghost of Cylon
Ride, Rodney, Ride!
The Greatest Sentence ever Written (Finale)
All songs (Except Yankee Doodle) , Words and Music by David Ray Bowman
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