The WWII Home Front - Arsenal of Democracy | 1
On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes rained death and destruction down on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor—shocking the nation and drawing it into World War II. The U.S. had been rav...
6 Touko 202041min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - How Early American Revolts Shaped Today’s Protests | 7
In 1799, the U.S. government imposed a new tax on houses, land, and slaves to fund an expanded military. A man named John Fries led Pennsylvania Dutch farmers in protest of the law. What became known ...
29 Huhti 202041min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Nat Turner’s Rebellion | 6
In February 1831, a solar eclipse caused the skies to darken over the isolated backwater of Southampton County, Virginia. An enslaved man and self-proclaimed prophet named Nat Turner saw it as a sign ...
22 Huhti 202037min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Gabriel’s Rebellion | 5
As a new century dawned on the United States, an enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel began planning a bold plot to overthrow slavery in Virginia’s capital. The uprising would change the future of slaver...
15 Huhti 202040min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Crisis in the West | 4
In 1794, anti-government protests grew into an all-out rebellion, and President Washington faced his first major test of federal authority. Some 7,000 armed Westerners marched on Pittsburgh and threat...
8 Huhti 202037min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - The Whiskey Rebellion | 3
Only a few years after Shays’ Rebellion was suppressed, a new revolt broke out in western Pennsylvania. Anti-government resentment had been growing on the frontier for years. Then in 1791, the U.S. go...
1 Huhti 202042min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - A Constitution Shaped by Revolt | 2
Tensions reached a climax in the freezing winter of 1787, as Daniel Shays and 1,500 rebel soldiers stormed the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts. The rebels hoped to seize arms and ammunit...
25 Maalis 202040min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Farmer Uprising | 1
The dust had barely settled on the American Revolution when new unrest erupted in western Massachusetts. Thousands of farmers and laborers rose up in protest against unjust taxes and a state governmen...
18 Maalis 202037min
