127 American Enlightenments
In many ways, the Enlightenment gave birth to the United States. Enlightened ideas informed protests over imperial governance and taxation and over whether there should be an American bishop. If we w...
28 Mar 201758min
126 The Reintegration of American Loyalists
What happened to the loyalists who stayed in the United States after the War for Independence? After the war, 60,000 loyalists and 15,000 slaves evacuated the United States. But thousands more opted ...
21 Mar 201748min
125 Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America
Early America was a diverse place. It contained many different people who had many different traditions that informed how they lived…and died. How did early Americans understand death? What did they ...
14 Mar 201739min
124 Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
What did the American Revolution mean and achieve? What sort of liberty and freedom did independence grant Americans and which Americans should receive them? Americans grappled with these questions s...
7 Mar 201755min
123: Revolutionary Allegiances (Doing History Rev)
In December 1773, the Cape Cod Tea Crisis revealed that the people of “radical” Massachusetts were far from united in their support for the American Revolution. An observation that leads us to wonder:...
28 Feb 20171h 35min
122 The Men Who Lost America
Did the Americans win the War for Independence? Or did the British simply lose the war? The history of the American War for Independence is complicated. And history books tell many different versions...
21 Feb 201748min
121 The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
The Spanish, French, and English played large roles in the origins of colonial America. But so too did the Dutch. During the 17th century, they had a “moment" in which they influenced European coloniz...
14 Feb 201741min
120 A History of Mail Order Brides in Early America
How do you build colonies without women? Most of the colonial adventurers from England and France who set out for Jamestown, New France, and colonial Louisiana were men. But how do you build and sust...
7 Feb 201753min
