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Independence Hall's Untold Stories with D.G. Hart
In another installment of our America 250-themed episodes of the Anchoring Truths Podcast, we are delighted to bring you a deep-dive into Independence Hall, a building almost synonymous with the American Revolution and which is also our logo at the James Wilson Institute.
Before anyone signed anything there, Independence Hall was just Pennsylvania’s State House. It was built because of a riot. In 1729, angry Philadelphians mobbed the colony’s lawmakers over paper money, and the assembly decided it needed a safer place to meet. So the building where Americans later plotted revolution was first…
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