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344 Music in British North America
Episode 344
Our 5-episode series about music in Early America continues with this second episode that seeks to answer your questions about music in Earl…
3 years, 10 months ago
343 Music and Song in Native North America
Episode 343
What was music like in Early America? How did different early Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and White Americans—integrate a…
3 years, 10 months ago
342 The Great Power of Small Native Nations
Episode 342
Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French colonization in the Gulf South region?
Elizabeth…
3 years, 10 months ago
341 Possession and Exorcism in New France
Episode 341
Prepare for tricks, treats, and time travel! In honor of Halloween, we’re traveling back to the mid-seventeenth century to investigate a cas…
3 years, 11 months ago
340 Prisoners of War and the War of 1812
Episode 340
The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it wa…
3 years, 11 months ago
339 Women and the Constitutional Moment of 1787
Episode 339
Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we n…
4 years ago
338 The Early History of the United States Senate
Episode 338
On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the …
4 years ago
337 Early America's Trade with China
Episode 337
What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’ indepen…
4 years, 1 month ago
336 Surviving the Southampton Rebellion
Episode 336
What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising?
Over the course of the early republic, we see a few violent slave uprisings in the Uni…
4 years, 1 month ago
335 The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
Episode 335
Alexander Hamilton played important roles in the founding of the United States. He served in the Continental Army, helped frame the United S…
4 years, 2 months ago