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363 Road Trip 2023: Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
Episode 363
About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri.
Established in 1750 by the…
3 years, 2 months ago
362 Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations
Episode 362
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & Americ…
3 years, 2 months ago
361 The Fourth of July in 2026
Episode 361
July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we wil…
3 years, 3 months ago
360 Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts
Episode 360
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery…
3 years, 3 months ago
359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America
Episode 359
“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoug…
3 years, 3 months ago
358 St. Augustine & Early Florida
Episode 358
For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the …
3 years, 4 months ago
357 Privateering in the American Revolution
Episode 357
How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with the British military during the American Wa…
3 years, 4 months ago
356 The Moravian Church in North America
Episode 356
In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted “the Great Law,” a humanitar…
3 years, 5 months ago
355 The Virginia Venture
Episode 355
On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately-…
3 years, 5 months ago
354 The Sewing Girl's Tale
Episode 354
History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and see how far we’ve come as people and societ…
3 years, 6 months ago