147 British Soldiers, American War
What about the British Redcoats? When we discuss the military history of the American War for Independence, we tend to focus on specific battles or details about the men who served in George Washingto...
15 Elo 201746min
146 George Washington's Revolution
What drove George Washington to become a Patriot during the American Revolution? How did he overcome the ill-trained and inexperienced troops, inadequate pay, and supply problems that plagued the Cont...
8 Elo 201751min
145 Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
Mercy Otis Warren wasn’t your typical early American woman. She was a woman with strong political viewpoints, which she wrote about and published for the world to see and consider. Did anyone take her...
1 Elo 20171h
144 The Common Cause of the American Revolution
How do you get people living in thirteen different colonies to come together and fight for independence? What ideas and experiences would even unite them behind the fight? Patriot leaders asked themse...
25 Heinä 201754min
143 The Making of the United States Constitution
How did the framers draft the Constitution of 1787? What powers does the Constitution provide the federal government? Why do we elect the President of the United States by an electoral system rather t...
18 Heinä 20171h 7min
142 A History of Abolition
Most histories of American abolitionism begin just before the Civil War, during the Antebellum period. But the movement to end chattel slavery in America began long before the United States was a nati...
11 Heinä 201757min
141 A Declaration in Draft (Doing History Rev)
The Declaration of Independence stands first in a series of documents that founded the United States. It also stands as an early step in the long process of establishing a free, independent, and self-...
4 Heinä 20171h 17min
140 Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea
Nathaniel Bowditch worked as a navigator, mathematician, astronomer, and business innovator. Over the course of his lifetime, his fellow Americans hailed him as the “American Sir Isaac Newton.” Tamara...
27 Kesä 201753min
