It's November 2019 and everything is fucked. Historian and comedian, Dawn Brodey, tells you about a time in history when... it was also fucked. This episode, The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. The ink was still wet on the Constitution and George Washington had just begun his second term when we levied our first federal tax (thanks, Alexander Hamilton). Everybody got pissed off - especially the folks in Western Pennsylvania. It was among the first times the American Government came push-to-shove with their own citizens... many of them veterans of the Revolutionary War... about paying taxes.
Shots were fired, people died, the General rode again... but how did it end?
Sometimes there's a lesson in how to un-fuck things, sometimes it's just nice to know that the fuckary we're enduring has happened before and can be survived. So. Welcome to Historical Perspectives with Dawn Brodey.
I'm Dawn Brodey.
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