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324 New Netherland and Slavery
Episode 324
After Henry Hudson’s 1609-voyage along the river that now bears his name, Dutch traders began to visit and trade at the area they called New…
4 years, 6 months ago
323 American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder
Episode 323
In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern bord…
4 years, 7 months ago
322 Running from Bondage in Revolutionary America
Episode 322
During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’ war…
4 years, 7 months ago
321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July?
Episode 321
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of …
4 years, 8 months ago
321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July? (No Ad)
Episode 321
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
In…
4 years, 8 months ago
Bonus: Cooking with Benjamin Franklin
Thank you for your support! Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. In honor of Franklin’s birthday, this bonus episode takes a further look …
4 years, 8 months ago
320 Benjamin Franklin's London House
Episode 320
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706, to Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin. Although Franklin began his life as the young…
4 years, 8 months ago
319 Cuba: An Early American History
Episode 319
One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the mou…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bonus: Colonial Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri
What challenges do National Park Service interpretive rangers face when they interpret non-British colonial history? How did the relationshi…
4 years, 9 months ago
318 Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park
Episode 318
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 F…
4 years, 9 months ago