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Ten Steps to Revolution - Journey to American Democracy - Heather Cox Richardson
In June 2025, our team launched Journey to American Democracy, a series of short videos about American history that started with “Ten Steps to Revolution.” To date, we have released 28 episodes. There is much more to come in 2026!
Journey to American Democracy examines how ordinary people worked to make the principles the founders articulated in the Declaration of Independence the law of the land. Ten Steps to Revolution explains how the king's American subjects came to oppose monarchy and, over the course of only thirteen years, to embrace the right to govern themselves. - 01/01/2026.
Episodes
00:00 - 1: British Subjects
01:41 - 2: Boston Rebels
03:25 - 3: Revolutionary Boston
05:28 - 4: Lanterns in the Steeple
07:02 - 5: The Regulars are Coming!
08:43 - 6: The Battles of Lexington and Concord
10:15 - 7: The Battle Road
11:56 - 8: The Battle of Bunker Hill
13:38 - 9: The Siege of Boston
15:18 - 10: Independence