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This is the 4th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down , a 12-episode serial by Serial Box Publishing in partnership with The Associated Press.
The infant colonial navy meets the mighty Brits. Life on the briny in the 18th c. offered a mean existence along with the tantalizing hope of riches. And entertainments on land for hard-working, hard-drinking cards, billiards, cock-fights, and sermons, too.
They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood together and fought the greatest empire the world had ever known, all for a brand-new America.
A month by month immersive historical account of the Revolution in its first year, this series of twelve installments is unique in its focus on the lives of ordinary colonists and the more personal stories of now famous figures. Through informal and playful storytelling about the events in each month, the series explores the roots of America’s successes and many struggles. We see the beginnings of regional disputes and differences, institutional inequality and oppression, the tension between cultural heritage versus assimilation, and the struggle between states’ rights and federal government, all through the eyes of colonists and militiamen.
The audio series is narrated by Robin Miles with a variety of guest voices including Hamilton star Chris Jackson as George Washington. Installments are being released in synchronized ebook and audio monthly installments from Serial Box throughout 2018.
The infant colonial navy meets the mighty Brits. Life on the briny in the 18th c. offered a mean existence along with the tantalizing hope of riches. And entertainments on land for hard-working, hard-drinking cards, billiards, cock-fights, and sermons, too.
They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood together and fought the greatest empire the world had ever known, all for a brand-new America.
A month by month immersive historical account of the Revolution in its first year, this series of twelve installments is unique in its focus on the lives of ordinary colonists and the more personal stories of now famous figures. Through informal and playful storytelling about the events in each month, the series explores the roots of America’s successes and many struggles. We see the beginnings of regional disputes and differences, institutional inequality and oppression, the tension between cultural heritage versus assimilation, and the struggle between states’ rights and federal government, all through the eyes of colonists and militiamen.
The audio series is narrated by Robin Miles with a variety of guest voices including Hamilton star Chris Jackson as George Washington. Installments are being released in synchronized ebook and audio monthly installments from Serial Box throughout 2018.
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36 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 11, 2018
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271 books32 followersThe Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative.
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Associated Press also operates The Associated Press Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. The AP Radio also offers news and public affairs features, feeds of news sound bites, and long form coverage of major events.
As part of their cooperative agreement with The Associated Press, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. For example, on page two of every edition of The Washington Post, the newspaper's masthead includes the statement, "The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and all local news of spontaneous origin published herein."
The AP employs the "inverted pyramid formula" for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the story's essential meaning and news information.
Cutbacks at longtime U.S. rival United Press International, most significantly in 1993, left the AP as the primary nationally oriented news service based in the United States, although United Press International still produces and distributes news stories daily. Other English-language news services, such as Reuters and the English-language service of Agence France-Presse, are based outside the United States. More recently launched internet news services, such as All Headline News (AHN) are becoming competitive to the traditional wire services like the AP.
As of 2005, the news collected by the AP is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television and radio broadcasters. The photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The Associated Press operates 243 news bureaus, and it serves at least 120 countries, with an international staff located all over the world.
Associated Press also operates The Associated Press Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. The AP Radio also offers news and public affairs features, feeds of news sound bites, and long form coverage of major events.
As part of their cooperative agreement with The Associated Press, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. For example, on page two of every edition of The Washington Post, the newspaper's masthead includes the statement, "The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and all local news of spontaneous origin published herein."
The AP employs the "inverted pyramid formula" for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the story's essential meaning and news information.
Cutbacks at longtime U.S. rival United Press International, most significantly in 1993, left the AP as the primary nationally oriented news service based in the United States, although United Press International still produces and distributes news stories daily. Other English-language news services, such as Reuters and the English-language service of Agence France-Presse, are based outside the United States. More recently launched internet news services, such as All Headline News (AHN) are becoming competitive to the traditional wire services like the AP.
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July 18, 2018This chapter covers the respective navies, both the British--most powerful in the world, and the cost to the islands to maintain it--and the nascent American navy, which drew on the privateers who were one step from pirates.
Quite a contrast to the mercantile descendants of pilgrims, who valued sobriety and clean living, and who also practiced a kind of shipboard democracy. One can imagine the stresses when these Americans were impressed by British captains desperate for men, and who were pitchforked into the long tradition of sodomy and the lash.
Meanwhile, American privateers were preying gleefully on the British when the latter couldn't catch them . . . while Washington stood haplessly on land, with no idea whatsoever about how to regulate a navy, or use it.
Vivid chapter.
Quite a contrast to the mercantile descendants of pilgrims, who valued sobriety and clean living, and who also practiced a kind of shipboard democracy. One can imagine the stresses when these Americans were impressed by British captains desperate for men, and who were pitchforked into the long tradition of sodomy and the lash.
Meanwhile, American privateers were preying gleefully on the British when the latter couldn't catch them . . . while Washington stood haplessly on land, with no idea whatsoever about how to regulate a navy, or use it.
Vivid chapter.
April 4, 2018
I received this as an ARC on Netgalley.
Lots of interesting information in this one about the beginnings of the American naval forces (mostly in light of accidental necessity, pirating and looting), plus all kinds of insight into the vices (mostly drinking and sex) and virtues (religious sects) of the revolutionary colonists. Interesting to see that not much has changed in terms of human nature and behavior over the course of history.
Lots of interesting information in this one about the beginnings of the American naval forces (mostly in light of accidental necessity, pirating and looting), plus all kinds of insight into the vices (mostly drinking and sex) and virtues (religious sects) of the revolutionary colonists. Interesting to see that not much has changed in terms of human nature and behavior over the course of history.
April 1, 2018
This month's installment covers the topics of the US navy, colonial leisure (particularly drinking habits), and religious diversity.
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July 24, 2018I think the writing style was trying for casual, but it just ended up scattered.
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