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080 Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
Episode 80
American prisons are overcrowded. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and nearly 2.5 million Americans are ser…
10 years, 4 months ago
079 What is a Historical Source? (Doing History)
Episode 79
Historians research the past through historical sources.
But what are the materials that tell historians about past peoples, places, and eve…
10 years, 5 months ago
078 Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War
Episode 78
The United States is in midst of a political and cultural divide.
The last time the United States faced this deep of a division, the nation …
10 years, 5 months ago
077 The Oregon Trail
Episode 77
Do you have what it takes to be a pioneer?
If offered the opportunity, would you undertake a journey across the Oregon Trail in a mule-pulle…
10 years, 5 months ago
076 Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution
Episode 76
What did it mean to be a citizen during the late-18th and early-19th centuries?
Why and how did early American sailors seem intent on provin…
10 years, 5 months ago
075 How Archives Work (Doing History)
Episode 75
Historians research history in archives.
But how do you gain access to one? And how do you use an archive once you find that it likely conta…
10 years, 6 months ago
074 Martha Washington
Episode 74
George Washington stands as one of the most famous Americans in history, but what do we know of his helpmeet and partner, Martha?
Who was th…
10 years, 6 months ago
073 The Bible in Early America
Episode 73
What role did the Bible play in the development of British North America and the early United States?
How did the settlement of numerous rel…
10 years, 6 months ago
072 The American Civil War
Episode 72
The American Civil War took place over 150 years ago.
The war claimed over 600,000 American lives and its legacy affects the way present-day…
10 years, 6 months ago
071 Saratoga and Hubbardton, 1777
Episode 71
Historians refer to the Battle of Saratoga as the “turning point” of the American Revolution.
They argue the Patriot Army’s defeat of Britis…
10 years, 7 months ago