087 Shays' Rebellion
After achieving independence from Great Britain, the new United States and its member states had to pay war debts. As the national government lacked the power to tax its citizens, the problem of payin...
21 Jun 201645min
086 Benjamin Franklin in London
Over the course of his long life, Benjamin Franklin traveled to and lived in London twice. The first time he went as a teenager. The second as a man and colonial agent. All told he spent nearly 18 yea...
14 Jun 201652min
085 American Loyalists in Canada
The War for Independence was a conflict between Great Britain and her 13 North American colonies. It was also a civil war. Not only did the war pit Briton against Briton when the conflict began in 17...
7 Jun 201644min
084 How Historians Read Historical Sources (Doing History)
What do historians do with historical sources once they find them? How do they read them for information about the past? Today, Zara Anishanslin, an Assistant Professor of History at CUNY’s College ...
31 Mai 201651min
083 Unfreedom: Slavery in Colonial Boston
Colonial Bostonians practiced slavery. But slavery in Boston looked very different than slavery in the American south or in the Caribbean. Today, Jared Hardesty, an Assistant Professor of History at ...
24 Mai 201641min
082 Information & Communication in the Early American South
We live in an age of information. The internet provides us with 24/7 access to all types of information—news, how-to articles, sports scores, entertainment news, and congressional votes. But what do ...
17 Mai 201641min
081 After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
When did the fighting of the American War for Independence end? In school we learn that the war came to an end at Yorktown. But, this lesson omits all of the fighting that took place after Charles, E...
10 Mai 201638min
080 Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
American prisons are overcrowded. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and nearly 2.5 million Americans are serving prison sentences. Nearly all politicians agree that we...
3 Mai 201636min
