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BFW Revisited: The Reintegration of American Loyalists
What would it take for you to forgive a neighbor who sided against you in a civil war? And what would you say to win back a community that you had fo…
3 hours ago
BFW Revisited: Loyalism in the British Atlantic World
In the late winter of 1775, colonists in a village outside of New York City hoisted the royal standard of King George III 75 feet into the air.
The s…
1 week ago
BFW Bonus: We Want More History
American history is in the news a lot these days. We see and hear about fights over monuments, textbooks, and the stories we should include or exclud…
1 week, 4 days ago
451 The Court-Martial That Put The American Revolution on Trial
Episode 451
In December 1777, Continental Army Colonel David Henley climbed off his horse to discipline a drunk British prisoner of war who was screaming epithet…
2 weeks ago
BFW Revisited: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
What caused the American Revolution?
Taxation without representation? Colonies that had outgrown their dependence on the British Empire? Or something…
3 weeks ago
450 Whose Revolution? The Delaware and the War for Independence
Episode 450
In December 1776, a Delaware Chief named White Eyes stood before the Second Continental Congress. He had not come to declare himself a revolutionary,…
4 weeks ago
BFW Revisited: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1
In 1723, the College of William & Mary opened the Brafferton building, a permanent home for an Indian School the college had been chartered to run an…
1 month ago
449 Stealing America: Indigenous Slavery and the American Revolution
Episode 449
More than half a million Indigenous people were enslaved within the present-day borders of the United States.
Historian Linford Fisher spent fifteen …
1 month, 1 week ago
BFW Revisited: American Expansion & the Political Economy of Plunder
Episode 323
The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are endowed with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But wh…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
448 The Declaration of Independence as American Scripture
Episode 448
The engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display at the National Archives building in Washington, DC. Millions of visitors flock t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago