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Every house is haunted. In each episode of Family Ghosts, we investigate the true story behind a mysterious figure whose legend has followed a family for generations. Grandmothers who were secretly jewel smugglers, uncles who led double lives, siblings who vanished without a trace, and other ghostly characters who cast shadows over our lives in ways that might not be immediately obvious. We are all formed in part by our familial collections of secrets, intrigues, and myths. By engaging with ...
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Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Entangled Alliances: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501783715/entangled-alliances/ Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/DK8vZ6h5cGCbqYHj0uoncXYUaD0?utm_source=copy_url Ronald Johnson holds the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University. He is the author of Diplomacy in Black and White, co-editor of In Search of Liberty and co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. We spoke to Ronald about how his research on the American Revolution revealed fascinating parallels and connections between the white and black revolutionaries in the Thirteen colonies and their fellow rebels and patriots in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in their collective uprising against European tyranny.
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