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393 Politics & Political Culture in the Early American Republic
Episode 393
The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 h…
2 years ago
392 Religion and Race in Early America
Episode 392
What does history have to tell us about how we, as Americans, came to define people by their race; the visual ways we have grouped people to…
2 years, 1 month ago
391 Government in Colonial Virginia
Episode 391
Do you ever wonder how governments met and worked in colonial British America?
Williamsburg, Virginia, served as the capital of Virginia be…
2 years, 1 month ago
390 Objects of Revolution
Episode 390
When we think about the American Revolution, the French Revolution, or the Haitian Revolution, we think about the ideals of freedom and equa…
2 years, 2 months ago
389 Indigenous Justice in Early America
Episode 389
Early North America was a place that contained hundreds of distinct Indigenous nations and peoples who spoke at least 2,000 distinct languag…
2 years, 2 months ago
388 John Hancock
Episode 388
Happy Fourth of July!
We’ve created special episodes to commemorate, celebrate, and remember the Fourth of July for years. Many of our epi…
2 years, 3 months ago
387 California and Slavery
Episode 387
When we think of California, we might think about sunny weather, Hollywood, beaches, wine country, and perhaps the Gold Rush.
What we don’t…
2 years, 3 months ago
386 Sleeping with the Ancestors
Episode 386
In this special Juneteenth episode, as we honor the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, we delve into the work of those working to p…
2 years, 3 months ago
385 Did George Washington Have Heirs?
Episode 385
The United States Constitution of 1787 gave many Americans pause about the powers the new federal government could exercise and how the gove…
2 years, 4 months ago
384 Making Maine: A Journey to Statehood
Episode 384
Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution establishes guidelines by which the United States Congress can admit new states to t…
2 years, 4 months ago