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267 Winter in the Early American Northeast
Episode 267
How did the people of early America experience and feel about winter?
Thomas Wickman, an Associate Professor of History and American Studies…
6 years, 10 months ago
266 Education in Early America
Episode 266
How did early Americans educate their children? How and when did Americans create a formal system of public education?
You sent me these que…
6 years, 10 months ago
265 An Early History of the White House
Episode 265
On July 1, 1790, Congress passed “An Act for Establishing the temporary and permanent Seat of the Government of the United States.” This act…
6 years, 10 months ago
264 The Iroquois, United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua 1794
Episode 264
The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American War for Independence, but it did not bring peace to North America. After 1783, warfare and viole…
6 years, 10 months ago
263 The Medical Imagination
Episode 263
Did you know that imagination once played a key role in the way Americans understood and practiced medicine?
Sari Altschuler, an Assistant P…
6 years, 11 months ago
262 Interpreting the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
Episode 262
History is an important tool when it comes to understanding American law.
History is what the justices of the United States Supreme Court us…
6 years, 11 months ago
261 Creating the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
Episode 261
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution doesn’t always make headlines, but it’s an amendment that undergirds foundational rig…
6 years, 11 months ago
260 Origins of the Bill of Rights (Doing History 4)
Episode 260
How and why did Congress draft the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution?
In the United States, we use the Constitution and Bill of Right…
6 years, 11 months ago
259 The Bill of Rights & How Legal Historians Work (Doing History 4)
Episode 259
Law is all around us. And the basis of American Law comes not only from our early American past, but from our founding documents.
This episo…
7 years ago
258 John Dickinson: Life, Religion, and Politics
Episode 258
The Second Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 with 12 colonies and one abstention. The delegation from New York abs…
7 years ago