Season 4, Episode 9 | Why Congress Can't Run a War—But Won One Anyway

Congress went to war in 1775 against the most powerful empire in the world, but could a legislative body actually run a war? With no executive departments, no Pentagon, and little experience managing a national military, the Second Continental Congress had to figure out how to transform colonial militias into a Continental Army, appoint a commander in chief, supply the troops, and direct a war that stretched across thousands of miles. In this episode, Matthew Brogdon and Savannah Eccles Johns...