Podcast Episodes

Episode 19: The Gambit

Season 2 Episode 19

With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to…

Published on 9 hours ago

Episode 18: The Resurrection

Season 2 Episode 18

Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant Brit…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 17: The Tyranny

Season 2 Episode 17

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passes a series of coercive and intolerable acts to punish the tea destroyers and bring order to British America.

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 16: The Tea

Season 2 Episode 16

British Americans' unquenchable thirst for tea and a looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies i…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 15: The Heavens Fall

Season 2 Episode 15

The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in th…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 14: The Corruption

Season 2 Episode 14

Months after the Boston Massacre, British Americans calling themselves "Regulators" launch a rebellion in western North Carolina that threatens to engulf the colony in revolution and civil war.

Featu…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 13: The Massacre

Season 1 Episode 13

In response to rioting and protests over the Townshend Acts, the British deploy four regiments to Boston, leading to a deadly shooting on March 5, 1770, a massacre that wounds a family. 

Featuring: S…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 12: The Conspiracy

Season 1 Episode 12

In the wake of the Stamp Act Crisis, the British chart a new course for empire in North America by imposing taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, pitting British Americans against Parliament…a…

Published on 9 months ago

Episode 11: The Resistance

Season 1 Episode 11

With the Stamp Act defeated, the Sons of Liberty in New York City celebrate by raising a Liberty Pole in tribute to George III, William Pitt, and Liberty, provoking a violent confrontation with Briti…

Published on 11 months ago

Episode 10: The Stamp

Season 1 Episode 10

In the mid-1760s, British fears that a new war with France was only a matter of time leads King George III and his ministers to draw up plans for a permanent army in North America, and a Stamp Tax on…

Published on 1 year ago