EPISODE · Jun 23, 2026 · 17 MIN
Outspoken: Meet the Revolution's artists, spies and other unheralded patriots
from The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast · host The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com
As we move toward another Fourth of July, it feels especially urgent to revisit the American Revolution through the lives of people who rarely make it into our textbooks or monuments. Art historian Zara Anishanslin does exactly that by recasting the founding era through the artists — many of them women, enslaved people, and immigrants — who used art, espionage and activism to shape a new nation from unexpected places, including London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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As we move toward another Fourth of July, it feels especially urgent to revisit the American Revolution through the lives of people who rarely make it into our textbooks or monuments. Art historian Zara Anishanslin does exactly that by recasting the founding era through the artists — many of them women, enslaved people, and immigrants — who used art, espionage and activism to shape a new nation from unexpected places, including London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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