Founders Unwound Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:17:01 -0400 en-us © 2026 Founders Unwound yes ea4063c2-6958-5fc7-8cf2-29f9b03aa350 Alan Best episodic false The Breaking Point — How a Shot in the Pennsylvania Wilderness Set the World on Fire.

In 1754, a 22-year-old Virginia militia officer named George Washington fired a volley in the forests of Pennsylvania that a British politician later said "set the world on fire." That single event set off a chain reaction — a world war, a bankrupt British empire, a taxation crisis — that made the American Revolution not just possible, but inevitable.

This is American history told honestly. No myth. No agenda. Just the real story — messier, more complicated, and more extraordinary than anything you learned in school.

Hosts Amanda and Harry bring you inside these events from two perspectives — an American curious about her country's origins and a British historian whose nation was on the other side of it all.

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Founders Unwound — Season One

April 19, 1775. A cold morning. A silent green in Lexington, Massachusetts. And a single gunshot that nobody has ever been able to explain.

No one knows who fired first. Not the British. Not the colonial militia standing across from them in the mist. But by the time the smoke cleared, eight American men were dead, and a war that would create a nation had begun.

This was not the story you read in a textbook. This was farmers and tradesmen — untrained, outnumbered, and staring down the most powerful army on Earth — making a decision that changed history before they even understood what they were deciding.

In this episode, we unwind the real events of Lexington and Concord — the confusion, the courage, and the mystery that still surrounds the first shot of the American Revolution.

Send your thoughts and story ideas to BestStoryPublishing@gmail.com

Visit us at www.beststorypublishing.com

]]> Episode Title: The Shot Heard Round the World

Founders Unwound — Season One

April 19, 1775. A cold morning. A silent green in Lexington, Massachusetts. And a single gunshot that nobody has ever been able to explain.

No one knows who fired first. Not the British. Not the colonial militia standing across from them in the mist. But by the time the smoke cleared, eight American men were dead, and a war that would create a nation had begun.

This was not the story you read in a textbook. This was farmers and tradesmen — untrained, outnumbered, and staring down the most powerful army on Earth — making a decision that changed history before they even understood what they were deciding.

In this episode, we unwind the real events of Lexington and Concord — the confusion, the courage, and the mystery that still surrounds the first shot of the American Revolution.

Send your thoughts and story ideas to BestStoryPublishing@gmail.com

Visit us at www.beststorypublishing.com

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