Around The Table Podcast

Make sure you don't miss an episode of our show by subscribing in iTunes or with the podcast app of your choice! What you'll hear: Facts of American independence (the original #Brexit,) you didn't learn in history class How Jefferson felt about the revisions to his Declaration of Independence The fraught bromance between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams How a flea market could make you a multimillionaire A Kardashian themed confessional The appropriate use for caps lock Can I quote you on that? “They believed themselves to be part of something greater than themselves [as part of the British empire] and there was a lot of emotion wrapped up in that. It was not something that was an easy decision for those to actually declare independence to do.” Tim Smith “We like to idealize these founding fathers and the purity of their motives and how simple it was, but it was very complicated.” Tim Smith “He [Thomas Jefferson] writes the declcaration with, as one historian put it, ‘eternal truths with literary inspirati