Footnotes
Oil painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill, with British soldiers and colonial militia crowded around a fallen officer.
John Trumbull, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, 1786. Public domain.

About this channel

About 1763–1800

Footnotes of Freedom stays with the American Revolution: the people, choices, and side paths that usually sit under the main story.

The era on this page runs from about 1763 to 1800, after the Seven Years’ War and through the first years of the republic. The paintings and the 1770 engraving were made in those years.

A new episode is published on Mondays.

Viewers can follow one of those smaller Revolutionary stories at a time.

Portrait of Paul Revere seated at a table, holding a silver teapot.
Paul Revere. John Singleton Copley, 1768. Public domain. Source

Episodes

3 episodes, newest first.

Newest

Henry Knox: The Bookseller Who Dragged Cannons 300 Miles | Footnotes of Freedom

9:33

The episode presents Henry Knox, the bookseller who dragged cannons 300 miles.

Earlier episodes

  • 1776 portrait of George Washington in a dark military coat.
    George Washington. Charles Willson Peale, 1776. Public domain. Source
  • 1770 engraving of soldiers firing on a crowd in King Street, Boston.
    The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770. Paul Revere, 1770. Public domain. Source