On this week’s episode, Cody and Steve talk about William Floyd and decide whether or not silence earns you a place as a Founding Father.

Podcast to recommend: Blowback (Blowback)

Sources

· Maxwell, William Q. A Portrait of William Floyd of Long Island. Setauket, NY: Society of the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1956.

· Pyne, Fred W. “William Floyd.” Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. . Retrieved 7 Oct 2024.

· Scubiere, Paul J. New York’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Albany, NY: New York State American Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission, 1975.

· See pinned post on Bluesky for general sources

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On this episode, Cody and Steve talk about Joseph Galloway, the Founding Father who committed the ultimate sin.

Podcast to recommend: Assassinations (Assassinations Podcast)

Sources

· Ferling, John. The Loyalist Mind: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution. College Station, PA: Pennsylvania State U. Press, 1977.

· Ford, Washington C., ed. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-89 Vol 1. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1904.

· Gardner, Zachary. “Joseph Galloway: The Occupation of Philadelphia.” HIST 102: The American Revolutionary War. Harvard U. Department of History, 2017. . Retrieved 24 Sept 2024.

· Stewart, Graham. “Joseph Galloway: The Forgotten Founding Father.” Englesberg Ideas, 19 Jan 2021. . Retrieved 24 Sept 2024.

· Smith, James M. “Joseph Galloway’s Plan of Union.” Journal of the American Revolution, 26 Jan 2022. . Retrieved 24 Sept 2024.

· United States Congress. “Galloway, Joseph.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 24 Sept 2024.

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On this episode, Steve and Cody discuss another Revolutionary immigrant from the Emerald Isle, Thomas Fitzsimons.

Podcast to recommend: Anglo-Saxon England (Anglo-Saxon England (evergreenpodcasts.com))

Sources

· Flanders, Henry. “Thomas Fitzsimmons.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 2, no. 3 (1878): 306–14. . Retrieved 10 Sept 2024.

· United States Congress. “Fitzsimons, Thomas.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 10 Sept 2024.

· Wright, Jr., Robert K., and Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.

· See pinned tweet for general sources

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