# Ricardo Herrera

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348 Valley Forge

On December 19, 1777, George Washington marched his Continental Army into its winter encampment at Valley Forge. In school we learned this was a hard, cold winter that saw the soldiers so ill-supplied they chewed on the leather of their shoes. But is this what really happened at Valley Forge? We ...

America's People Army - Largest Share In U.S. History | S1E14 AAR

Militias existed. Local defense existed. So why did Congress create the Continental Army—only to limit its power? What was this army fighting for? Who served in Washington's Army, and why? And how did serving in the Continental Army create a new national identity—an American identity? As for W ...

Episode 15 | Owners Unfiltered: Built, Not Given with Ricardo Herrera of TPG Paints & Stains

Success leaves clues, and Ricardo Herrera started looking for them long before he ever owned a business. In Episode 15 of Owners Unfiltered, Eric Perry sits down with Ricardo Herrera, owner of TPG Paints & Stains, to discuss his journey from an ambitious high school student consuming books, podc ...

BFW Revisited: Valley Forge

Most of us learned the same story: During the winter at Valley Forge, George Washington's army suffered and endured. Ragged soldiers huddled together in frozen huts and gnawed on shoe leather for food. But what if that story is mostly myth? Military historian Ricardo Herrera, author of Feeding ...

Hessian POWs: Hold Them. Win Them Over. Weaken Britain.| S1E32 AAR

Hessian POWs became part of America’s war strategy. Rather than quickly exchange thousands of captured German soldiers and return them to Britain’s army, American leaders had a powerful reason to keep them out of the fighting. But they went further: Washington and other revolutionaries tried to ...

357 Privateering in the American Revolution

How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with the British military during the American War for Independence? Eric Jay Dolin joins us to answer part of that question by looking at the creation of the United States’ privateer fleet. Dolin is th ...

348 Valley Forge

On December 19, 1777, George Washington marched his Continental Army into its winter encampment at Valley Forge. In school we learned this was a hard, cold winter that saw the soldiers so ill-supplied they chewed on the leather of their shoes. But is this what really happened at Valley Forge? We ...

The Truth About Starting a Business at 20 | Ricardo Herrera | Ep. 136

At just 25 years old, Ricardo Herrera has already experienced the highs, mistakes, uncertainty, and responsibility that come with building a painting company from the ground up. On Episode 136 of Workforce Skills with John Morris, Ricardo joins John for a candid conversation about entrepreneurs ...

Food and Hunger as Instruments of Power in the American Revolution| S1E37 AAR

Was "hunger knowledge" power? Arguably yes. It could sustain a community—or give it leverage over an empire. And Native nations had hunger knowledge superior to that of the British and the American colonists. They knew how to endure scarcity and provision armies, expertise that colonists often l ...