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Back to SearchThe Edge of Empire - Each for itself
Season 9 Episode 7
In May 1754, a Philadelphia printer cut a snake into pieces and told his fellow colonists to join, or die. That summer, as the first shots of a world…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Edge of Empire - Ohio Country
Season 9 Episode 6
In 1737, three runners set off through the Pennsylvania woods in a rigged footrace that stripped the Lenape of a million acres — and the men who lost…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Edge of Empire - New England’s Conquest
Season 9 Episode 5
In 1745, an army of New England farmers, fishermen, and shopkeepers — not one of them a trained soldier — sailed six hundred miles north to do the im…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Edge of Empire - Expended
Season 9 Episode 4
It started with a pickled ear in a jar, held up before the House of Commons — and it ended by quietly destroying the one colony built to be different…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Edge of Empire - The Road South
Season 9 Episode 3
Before dawn on September 9th, 1739, a man named Jemmy led twenty enslaved Africans against a store on the Stono River, took the guns off its shelves,…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Edge of Empire - A Different Kind of Place
Season 9 Episode 2
By 1738 the colony of Georgia is five years old and bleeding settlers across the river to South Carolina — because Georgia, alone in British America,…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Edge of Empire - Debatable Land
Season 9 Episode 1
A generation after the Yamasee War nearly destroyed it, South Carolina has become something new on the American mainland: the first colony where the …
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - Borrowed Guns
Season 8 Episode 9
France built the opposite of Carolina. Where the English ran their frontier through free-lance traders who cheated and enslaved the nations they live…
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - Carolina Remade
Season 8 Episode 8
South Carolina had won its battles and was still losing its war. Eight months after the Good Friday massacre, the colony was ringed, starving, and un…
4 years, 1 month ago
Wars Within Wars - The Good Friday Massacre
Season 8 Episode 7
South Carolina in 1715 was not a colony of farms — it was a trading firm with a coastline, running the largest deerskin and Indian-slave operation in…
4 years, 1 month ago