Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSidebar: The Comstock Act, Free Speech and the Legalization of Birth Control
Season 1 Episode 128
I'm traveling and otherwise swamped right now, so it's time for a Sidebar! In this episode we take a break from the 17th century, and look at the ca…
2 years, 11 months ago
Roger Williams Saves Rhode Island
Season 1 Episode 127
The year is 1642. The Puritan colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut are conspiring against settlements at Providence and on Aquid…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Founding of New Sweden
Season 1 Episode 126
Sweden's greatest king, Gustavus Adolphus, aspires for Sweden to become a maritime and commercial power in the Atlantic, and engages Dutch entreprene…
3 years ago
The Founding of Maryland Part 3: Making the Laws
Season 1 Episode 125
The Maryland Assembly convenes, and wrestles with the Lord Proprietor over the privilege of initiating legislation. Once the tussle is resolved, the…
3 years ago
Sidebar: The "Historical Sense"
Season 1 Episode 124
Inspired by an email from a longstanding and attentive listener, this Sidebar episode examines an essay by Gordon Wood introducing his book The Purpo…
3 years ago
The Founding of Maryland Part 2: The Ark and the Dove
Season 1 Episode 123
The Charter of Maryland having passed seals, Cecil Calvert, the Second Lord Baltimore, stayed in England to fend off political attacks against his Pr…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Founding of Maryland Part 1: Calvert's Dream
Season 1 Episode 122
George Calvert had a dream. He had grown up during the most exciting moments of Elizabeth I's reign, a time when England was transforming from a bac…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sidebar: John F. Kennedy’s Speech of July 4, 1946
Season 1 Episode 121
Longstanding listeners know that we have a tradition of talking about great speeches in American history on Memorial Day and July 4, when many such g…
3 years, 1 month ago
Anne Hutchinson Part 3: Conviction and Legacy
Season 1 Episode 120
Anne Hutchinson, having defeated every argument against her in the civil trial, cannot resist having the last word and in so doing condemns herself. …
3 years, 1 month ago
Anne Hutchinson Part 2: Ordeal by Trial
Season 1 Episode 119
The Antinomian crisis in the Massachusetts Bay Colony is escalating, threatening to tear it apart just as its leaders perceive a military threat from…
3 years, 2 months ago