Episode 30: The American Cause

Missing Pages · Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 9m · transcript

For the first half of this season I have been skirting around the overall reason the American colonists decided to raise their own banner against England. This episode is meant to rectify that by detailing the traditions fought against and the new philosophy fought for.

Before “independence” became a common word spoken in American coffeeshops, there was a hope that Britain was on the precipice of becoming a vast, transatlantic empire, and the American colonists hoped to indulge in the comin riches. They had long respected, and even venerated, their English heritage and hoped that the victory…