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163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American

Season 9 Episode 16

In 1850, 13-year-old Olive Oatman and her family set off on the perilous journey by foot from Missouri to Arizona. Olive and her little sister were c…

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162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush

Season 9 Episode 15

Fort Laramie was once a stockade where European fur traders and Native Americans lived together peacefully. But by the 1850s it became a stop-over al…

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161. The Trail of Tears

Season 9 Episode 14

Despite having fought alongside them, President Andrew Jackson hated Native Nations. In the early 1800s, he sought to deceive Cherokee tribes into gi…

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160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson

Season 9 Episode 13

North America was never virgin territory. For thousands of years it has been home to established nations of Indigenous people who founded ancient cit…

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159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4)

Season 9 Episode 12

The British have surrendered, they’ll be leaving soon. Now the Americans have a new and arguably harder task than before. They have to meld those 13 …

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158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3)

Season 9 Episode 11

The Declaration of Independence establishes the ideals on which this break away nation founds itself on. But it’s full of contradictions. It complain…

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157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2)

Season 9 Episode 10

The infamous Boston Tea Party sees colonists dressed as Native Americans dump British tea in the surrounding waters. Calls of “the British are coming…

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156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1)

Season 9 Episode 9

From sugar to paper, a series of taxes in the 1760s spark outrage amongst American colonists that snowball into a revolution. Was it inevitable that …

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155. The Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (Ep 5)

Season 9 Episode 8

We're all about the Benjamins. Franklin is unquestionably the most well-rounded of the Founding Fathers. Not only did he help draft the Declaration o…

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154. The Founding Fathers: John Adams (Ep 4)

Season 9 Episode 7

Often given less attention than the other Founding Fathers, John Adams is no less significant. Not only did he go on to be the second US President, b…

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