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129 The Road to Concord, 1775
Episode 129
How did the colonists of Massachusetts go from public protests meant to shame government officials and destroy offending property, to armed …
9 years, 5 months ago
128 American Revolutions: A Continental History
Episode 128
Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about…
9 years, 6 months ago
127 American Enlightenments
Episode 127
In many ways, the Enlightenment gave birth to the United States. Enlightened ideas informed protests over imperial governance and taxation a…
9 years, 6 months ago
126 The Reintegration of American Loyalists
Episode 126
What happened to the loyalists who stayed in the United States after the War for Independence?
After the war, 60,000 loyalists and 15,000 sl…
9 years, 6 months ago
125 Death, Suicide, and the Slavery in British North America
Episode 125
Early America was a diverse place. It contained many different people who had many different traditions that informed how they lived…and die…
9 years, 6 months ago
124 Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
Episode 124
What did the American Revolution mean and achieve? What sort of liberty and freedom did independence grant Americans and which Americans sho…
9 years, 6 months ago
123 Revolutionary Allegiances (Doing History)
Episode 123
In December 1773, the Cape Cod Tea Crisis revealed that the people of “radical” Massachusetts were far from united in their support for the …
9 years, 7 months ago
122 The Men Who Lost America
Episode 122
Did the Americans win the War for Independence? Or did the British simply lose the war?
The history of the American War for Independence is …
9 years, 7 months ago
121 The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
Episode 121
The Spanish, French, and English played large roles in the origins of colonial America. But so too did the Dutch. During the 17th century, t…
9 years, 7 months ago
120 A History of Mail Order Brides in Early America
Episode 120
How do you build colonies without women?
Most of the colonial adventurers from England and France who set out for Jamestown, New France, and…
9 years, 7 months ago