398 The Shawnee-Dunmore War, 1774
After the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), Great Britain instituted the Proclamation Line of 1763. The Line sought to create a lasting peace in British North America by limiting British colonial settleme...
19 Marras 20241h 9min
BFW Revisited: World of the Wampanoag, Pt. 1
It’s November, the time of year when we Americans get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday. Although the federal holiday we know and honor today came about in 1863, Thanksgiving is a day that many moder...
12 Marras 202450min
397 Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
The North American continent is approximately 160 million years old, yet in the United States, we tend to focus on what amounts to 3300 millionths of that history, which is the period between 1492 to ...
5 Marras 20241h 4min
BFW Revisited: Committees & Congresses of the American Revolution
Ben Franklin’s World Revisited is a series where Liz surfaces one of our earlier episodes that complements and adds additional perspectives to the histories we discuss in our new episodes. Given the ...
29 Loka 20241h 42min
395 The Great New York Fire of 1776
When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries ov...
8 Loka 202458min
394 The Pursuit of Happiness
What did Thomas Jefferson and the members of the Second Continental Congress mean when they wrote “the pursuit of Happiness” into the United States Declaration of Independence? And why is pursuing hap...
24 Syys 20241h 2min
393 Politics & Political Culture in the Early American Republic
The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 have played a vital role in the rise of politics and politica...
10 Syys 20241h 7min
