The Continental Dollar: The Default That Built American Credit

Image of Adel Aali (program host) and his guest, Dr. Farley Grubb, superimposed on the Betsy Ross flag, along cover image of “The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution was Financed with Paper Money”. Visit AARevolution.net for more images of the American Revolution and for interviews of scholars with Adel Aali.

Introduction In this interview: “If they default on the Continental dollar, that’s going to wipe off a lot of debt … and the minute you do that, you go from a negative 40 million net worth to a positive 40 million net worth.” Watch this segment in the video below (01:16:19) How could default create […]

Hessian POWs: Hold Them. Win Them Over. Weaken Britain.

Image of Adel Aali (program host) and his guest, Dr. Daniel Krebs, superimposed on the Betsy Ross flag, along cover image of “A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution”. Visit AARevolution.net for more images of the American Revolution and for interviews of scholars with Adel Aali.

Introduction In this interview: “They wanted to take good care of those German POWs… Hey, if you leave the British and become American, this is how many acres we’re going to promise you.” Watch this segment in the video below (01:03:57; 01:07:39) Why treat enemy POWs well? Why offer them land? Why encourage them to […]