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Bonus: Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Episode 24
In this bonus episode, we explore a listener requested topic of colonial inns and taverns by investigating the history of the oldest inn sti…
11 years, 5 months ago
024 18th-Century Fashion and Material Culture
Episode 24
What can John Hancock’s suit tell you about the man who wore it?
The clothing a person wears tells you a lot about them: Whether they are ri…
11 years, 5 months ago
023 Early American History with the JuntoCast
Episode 23
Have you ever wondered what happens when four historians get together to talk about early American history?
In this episode, we chat with th…
11 years, 6 months ago
022 Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache: Benjamin Franklin's Women
Episode 22
Have you heard the saying that behind every great man stands a great woman?
Vivian Bruce Conger, the Robert Ryan Professor in the Humanities…
11 years, 6 months ago
021 Smuggling in Colonial America & Living History
Episode 21
Do you know that John Hancock was a smuggler?
Smuggling presented a large problem for the imperial governments of Great Britain and France d…
11 years, 6 months ago
020 Four Steeples Over the City Streets: Religion in Early New York City
Episode 20
Have you ever wondered about how early American men, women, and slaves worshipped?
Religion played a large role in why some Europeans settle…
11 years, 6 months ago
019 The Colonial Boston Marketplace
Episode 19
Have you ever wondered where colonial Americans purchased their food?
Although many colonial Americans lived in rural areas or on farms wher…
11 years, 6 months ago
018 Our Declaration
Episode 18
Do you know who authored the Declaration of Independence?
If you answered “Thomas Jefferson,” you would be wrong. Jefferson merely wrote the…
11 years, 7 months ago
017 When the United States Spoke French
Episode 17
Parlez-vous Français?
Do you speak French?
Believe it or not in the 1790s many Americans spoke French. They may not have spoken the French …
11 years, 7 months ago
016 The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Episode 16
The United States claimed victory in the War of 1812, but did you know that the British nearly won the war by promising freedom to escaped s…
11 years, 7 months ago