Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Thanksgiving-some-holiday-history.mp3 Author Lauren Brosnihan Air Date 11/23/2006 Thanksgiving and History Transcript As we celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s difficult to imagine what that first celebration was like for the Allertons, Hopkinses, and other families who broke bread together on that autumn day nearly four hundred years ago. How do we even know […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Adams-Unbound.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/6/2006 Gilbert Stuart, John Adams, American, 1755 – 1828, c. 1800/1815, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Robert Homans John Adams Unbound Transcript One of our nation’s Founding Fathers, Adams was the son of a colonial farmer who instilled in his son not only […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Listen-my-children-and-you-shall-hear…mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/18/2005 Paul Revere’s Ride Transcript In Massachusetts, Patriots Day, April 18th, is celebrated with great fervor and pride. On Lexington Green, the shot heard round the world is fired once more – and is followed by a faithful reenactment of the first battle of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Washingtons-Civil-Lessons.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/7/2003 George Washington’s Lessons Transcript In 1745 George Washington was a 13 year old school-boy in Virginia when he wrote down a list of social rules in his workbook entitles “The Rules of Civility.” The list was the descendant of a courtesy book published […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Revolutionary-Verses.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/8/2003 Francis Hopkinson Transcript In your studies of the American Revolution, it is unlikely that you spent much time on Francis Hopkinson. Hopkinson was the author of satirical and nonsensical essays that simultaneously delighted his allies and infuriated his enemies. A signer of the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Yankee-Doodle.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/3/2002 Yankee Doodle Transcript Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony. Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. If you think about it, it is a little bit odd that the unofficial American anthem is a nonsensical nursery rhyme. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patriots-Day-Johnny-Tremain.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/22/2002 Johnny Tremain Transcript As a source of literary inspiration, the American Revolution has inspired surprisingly few fictional tales that have stood the test of time. Unlike the Civil War, or World War II, action stories and adventure films have rarely successfully explored the […]