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The Committees that Created a Nation

Season 1 Episode 71 | 4m 25s

Everybody knows about the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence, but long before these historic moments, anti-loyalist sentiments were growing in backrooms across the New World. Small groups of ordinary people began writing letters, sharing news, and building trust, eventually evolving into a vast information sharing network known as the Committees of Correspondence.

Aired: 10/27/25