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061 Edward Larson, George Washington in Retirement
Episode 61
If you had only six years to enjoy retirement what would you do?
Would you improve your plantation? Build canals? Or work behind-the-scenes …
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060 David Preston, Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Episode 60
Did Washington really start the French and Indian War?
Why should we remember a battle that took place over 260 years ago?
In this episode, …
10 years, 9 months ago
059 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Episode 59
Between the 1830s and 1860s, a clandestine communications and transportation network called the “Underground Railroad” helped thousands of s…
10 years, 9 months ago
058 Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Episode 58
Why do we refer to the men who founded the United States as the “founding fathers?”
Why do we choose to remember the American Revolution as …
10 years, 10 months ago
057 War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
Episode 57
Do you know what we have in common with our early American forebears?
Taxes.
As Benjamin Franklin stated in 1789, “nothing is certain but de…
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056 The Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761
Episode 56
Between 1754 and 1763, North Americans participated in the French and Indian War; a world war Europeans call the Seven Years’ War.
As this w…
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055 John Jay: Forgotten Founder
Episode 55
Who was John Jay?
Jay played important and prominent roles during the founding of the United States and yet, his name isn’t one that many wo…
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054 American Exceptionalism: The History of an Idea
Episode 54
The United States is a diverse nation of immigrants and their ancestors. With such diversity, and no one origination point for its people, h…
10 years, 10 months ago
053 The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Episode 53
Do you believe in the supernatural? In ghosts, zombies, or perhaps witches?
Today we celebrate All Hallows Eve with an exploration of the sp…
10 years, 11 months ago
052 Diplomacy in Black and White: Early United States-Haitian Relations
Episode 52
Much like the United States, the colonists of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) sought their independence from France by fighting a war and…
10 years, 11 months ago