213 The Pilgrims of Plimoth
In 1621, the Pilgrims of Plimoth Colony and their Wampanoag neighbors came together to celebrate their first harvest. Today we remember this event as the first Thanksgiving. But what do we really kno...
20 Nov 201859min
212 Researching Biography (Doing History)
How do historians and biographers reconstruct the lives of people from the past? Good biographies rely on telling the lives of people using practiced historical methods of thorough archival research ...
13 Nov 20181h 10min
Bonus: The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
As part of the Omohundro Institute's Doing History series on biography, Episode 212 offers us a new conversation with Erica Dunbar, the author of Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of T...
9 Nov 201854min
211 Considering John Marshall, Part 2 (Doing History)
Can a biography help us explore big historical questions? Can knowing about the life of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, help us better understand the Supre...
6 Nov 20181h 12min
210 Considering John Marshall, Part 1 (Doing History)
For 34 years, John Marshall presided as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his service, Marshal transformed the nation’s top court and its judicial branch into the powerful b...
30 Okt 20181h 17min
209 Considering Biography (Doing History)
Biography. Since the earliest days of the United States, and even before the thirteen colonies came together to forge a nation, Americans have been interested in biography. But why? What is it about ...
23 Okt 20181h 37min
208 Turning Points of the American Revolution
2018 marks the 241st anniversary of the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga and the 240th anniversary of the Franco-American Alliance. But was the victory that prompted the French to join the A...
16 Okt 201856min
207 Young Benjamin Franklin
What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the early American past because as a man of “variety” he pursued m...
9 Okt 20181h 4min
