364 Road Trip 2023: La Pointe-Krebs House & Museum
The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to some historians, the Gulf Coast region may have b...
15 Elo 202356min
363 Road Trip 2023: Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviéve reveals much about what it was lik...
1 Elo 20231h
362 Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations. This exhibit allows you to see treaties t...
18 Heinä 20231h 2min
361 The Fourth of July in 2026
July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we will be marking the 250th anniversary of these events. How a...
4 Heinä 20231h 20min
360 Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865,...
20 Kesä 20231h 6min
359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America
“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white. What we see instead is that people ...
6 Kesä 202355min
358 St. Augustine & Early Florida
For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the administrative units it created to govern this vast territor...
23 Touko 20231h 5min
357 Privateering in the American Revolution
How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with the British military during the American War for Independence? Eric Jay Dolin joins us to answer part ...
9 Touko 20231h
