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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH: The 2nd Continental Congress
Description: On June 14, 1937, the state of Pennsylvania did something that to date, no other state has decided to do. In declaring June 14th a state holiday, Pennsylvania was making a statement that - in our times - has proved to be controversial and perhaps even quaint.
But the whole thing stated long before there was a Colin Kaepernick or even a State of Pennsylvania. It stated a few days after the battles of Lexington and Concord, in the halls of the Pennsylvania State House.
There. the Second Continental Congress took its seat, and began to guide th...