Audacity of the Continental Congress

Rosemarie Zagarri, history professor at George Washington University, discusses the American colonists' audacity in taking on Great Britain and the implications of its declaring war against the world's greatest military power. This audio clip is an excerpt from an interview that originally aired during the week of July 3, 1998, on the radio program With Good Reason, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the humanities and hosted at the time by Carolyn Eliott.