Hours after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, rebel British Americans begin laying siege to Boston, trapping thousands of civilians and soldiers in town for months with dwindling supplies, compelling the British to make a costly assault on nearby Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill.

Featuring: Rick Atkinson, Lindsay Chervinsky, Brad Jones, and Rosemarie Zagarri.

Voice Actors: Adam Smith, Grace Mallon, John Turner, Annabelle Spencer, Evan McCormick, John Terry, Spencer McBride, and Peter Walker.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan's family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war for revenge with tragic results.

Featuring: Robert Parkinson and Christopher Pearl.

Voice Actors: Adam Smith, John Terry, Anne Fertig, and Evan McCormick.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament's Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord.

Featuring: Rick Atkinson, Fred Anderson, Wendy Bellion, Katherine Carté, Frank Cogliano, Brad Jones, and Andrew O'Shaughnessy.

Voice Actors: Anne Fertig, Adam Smith, Evan McCormick, John Turner, John Winters, Grace Mallon, Peter Walker, Craig Gallager, Spencer McBride, and John Terry.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.

Featuring: Julie Flavell, Mary Beth Norton, Michael Hattem, and Frank Cogliano.

Voice Actors: Grace Mallon, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, Adam Smith, Craig Gallagher, and John Terry.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years' War, Parliament's passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America.

Featuring: Katherine Carté, Christian Ayne Crouch, Brad Jones, and Jeffers Lennox.

Voice Actors: Jan Hoffmann, Craig Gallagher, Emmanuel Dubois, Grace Mallon, Bertrand van Ruymbeke, Adam Smith, Anne Fertig, Annabelle Spencer, and Patrick Long.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passes a series of coercive and intolerable acts to punish the tea destroyers and bring order to British America.

British Americans' unquenchable thirst for tea and a looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies in 1773, inspiring Bostonians to dump much of the cargo in Boston Harbor.

Featuring: Benjamin Carp, James Fichter, Deepthi Murali, and Mary Beth Norton.

Voice Actors: Craig Gallagher, Margaret Hughes, Grace Mallon, Norman Rodger, Annabelle Spencer, and John Turner.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire.

Featuring: Christopher Brown, Trevor Burnard, Julie Flavell, and Chernoh Sesay, Jr.

Voice Actors: Amber Pelham, Anne Fertig, Gillian MacDonald, Norman Roger, Craig Gallagher, and Adam McNeil.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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Months after the Boston Massacre, British Americans calling themselves "Regulators" launch a rebellion in western North Carolina that threatens to engulf the colony in revolution and civil war.

Featuring: Abby Chandler, Marjoleine Kars, Cynthia Kierner, and Nathan Schultz.

Voice Actors: Sarah Donelson, Evan McCormick, Norman Rodger, John Terry, and Peter Walker.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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In response to rioting and protests over the Townshend Acts, the British deploy four regiments to Boston, leading to a deadly shooting on March 5, 1770, a massacre that wounds a family.

Featuring: Serena Zabin and John McCurdy.

Voice Actors: Anne Fertig, Grace Mallon, Evan McCormick, Adam McNeil, and Nate Sleeter.

Narrated by Dr. Jim Ambuske.

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This episode was made possible with support from Richard H. Brown and Mary Jo Otsea.

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