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Dec. 14, 2023

The John Carter Brown Library Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down

The John Carter Brown Library Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) has generously invested $10,000 in support of our latest pod…

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Dec. 5, 2023

The Powder Horn Map

Edward Cogswell was never meant to appear in Worlds Turned Upside Down. The drummer, who enlisted in Captain Canfield’s Company of the 4th Connecticut Regiment on March 31, 1758, was a soldier I’d never heard of when I sat down to write…

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Nov. 21, 2023

Worlds Turned Upside Down Receives Funding from Virginia’s 250 Commission

RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission has generously awarded $10,000 in support of our latest podcast, Worlds Turned Upside Down. Worlds Turned Upside Down tel…

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Oct. 26, 2023

Accounting for the Seven Years’ War in North America

How many people served in North America during the Seven Years’ War? As it turns out, that’s a much harder question to answer than you might think. In “The Nadir,” the second episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down, we wanted t…

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Sept. 26, 2023

Revolutionary Beginnings

We all know how the American Revolution ends, but do we really understand its beginnings? In the mid-1750s, far from Philadelphia, New York, Boston, or Charleston, and farther still from London, Paris, or Madrid, the choices made by British settler…

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May 15, 2023

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant joins the R2 Studios Network

R2 Studios and historian Kathryn Gehred are excited to announce a new partnership that will bring the highly-rated podcast series Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant to the R2 Studios network.  Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant …

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Feb. 16, 2023

Production Now Underway For Worlds Turned Upside Down

R2 Studios and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media are excited to announce that production is underway for Worlds Turned Upside Down. This new podcast series tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis a…

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Oct. 4, 2022

R2 Studios Launches Season 2 of The Green Tunnel Podcast

Season Two of The Green Tunnel podcast, produced here at R2 Studios, launched today. In this season we will be focused on the larger question of who the Appalachian Trail is for and will come at that question from a variety of directi…

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Sept. 15, 2022

R2 Studios Receives Grant for Podcast on History of American Antisemitism

R2 Studios and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) are excited to announce that Jeanette Patrick, John Turner, and Lincoln Mullen have been awarded $50,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation to begin work on a pod…

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Sept. 28, 2020

Consolation Prize — a New Podcast From RRCHNM

When you think of the most exciting, controversial, or salacious moments in American history, your first thought probably isn’t the story of a U.S. consul. Consuls were charged by the U.S. State Department with reporting American trade in ci…

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