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070 How Historians Research (Doing History)
Episode 70
How did enslaved African and African American women experience slavery?
What were their daily lives like?
And how do historians know as much…
10 years, 7 months ago
069 Law, Order, and Sexual Misconduct in Colonial New England
Episode 69
Law and order stood as a sign of civilization for many 17th-century Europeans, which is why some of the first European settlers in North Ame…
10 years, 7 months ago
068 Founder's Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Episode 68
Abraham Lincoln grew up as the son of a poor farmer. Yet, he became the 16th President of the United States.
How did the son of a poor farme…
10 years, 7 months ago
067 An Environmental History of Early California & Hawaii
Episode 67
Aside from nice weather, what do California and Hawaii have in common?
Spanish longhorn cattle.
Today, we explore how Spanish longhorn cattl…
10 years, 8 months ago
066 How Historians Find Their Research Topics (Doing History)
Episode 66
How did average, poor, and enslaved men and women live their day-to-day lives in the early United States?
Today, we explore the answers to t…
10 years, 8 months ago
Bonus: Why Historians Study History (Doing History)
Episode 65
History is about people, but what do we know about the people behind history’s scenes?
Who are the people who tell us what we know about our…
10 years, 8 months ago
065 Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Network
Episode 65
Today, we explore espionage during the American Revolution and the origins and operations of the Culper Spy Ring with Alexander Rose, author…
10 years, 8 months ago
064 Native American Slavery in New France
Episode 64
Most early Americans practiced chattel slavery: the practice of treating slaves as property that people could buy, sell, trade, and use as t…
10 years, 8 months ago
063 Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War
Episode 63
The American Civil War claimed more than 620,000 American lives.
Did you know that it also cost American forests, landscapes, cities, and in…
10 years, 8 months ago
062 The Bill of Rights
Episode 62
Did you know that when James Madison originally proposed the Bill of Rights, it consisted of 36 amendments and that the House of Representat…
10 years, 9 months ago