Worlds Turned Upside Down

FAIN: TR-296987-24

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Theodore Mills Kelly (Project Director: August 2023 to December 2024)
Lincoln A. Mullen (Project Director: December 2024 to present)
James Patrick Ambuske (Co Project Director: April 2024 to present)
Jeanette Patrick (Co Project Director: April 2024 to present)

Production of Season Two of a podcast series about the history of the American Revolution.

R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University requests funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the production of Season Two of Worlds Turned Upside Down, a narrative documentary podcast series about the history of the American Revolution for a public audience. The series draws on contributions from an international cast of leading experts to explore the conflict through the lives of British Americans, Indigenous nations, enslaved Africans and African Americans, Europeans, and other peoples who experienced it as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war. Season Two is entitled “The War of Reconciliation.” It covers the period between the outbreak of the War for Independence in April 1775 and the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. Over the course of ten, 45-to-60-minute episodes, we will challenge the public’s common assumption that rebelling American colonists intended independence from the war’s outset.