Liberty is sweet: The hidden history of the American Revolution

This week we are digging into our broadcast archives to bring you an encore of an episode that is perfect in this 250th-annivesary year of the start of the American Revolution.Walter’s guest is Dr. Woody Holton of the University of South Carolina, and they will be talking about Horton’s book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution. (2021, Simon & Schuster).Liberty is Sweet has been described as a “deeply researched and bracing retelling” of the Revolution, which shows how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.

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Liberty is sweet: The hidden history of the American Revolution is an episode from Walter Edgar's Journal by South Carolina Public Radio.

This episode is 46:59 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2026.

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