Bonus. Listener Q&A: The Early History of the United States Congress
This special bonus episode previews the Ben Franklin's World Subscription program and its monthly bonus episode for program subscribers. In this bonus episode, Historian of the United States House of...
30 Okt 202019min
287 Elections in Early America: Presidential Elections & the Electoral College
For four months during the summer of 1787, delegates from the thirteen states met in Philadelphia to craft a revised Constitution that would define the government of the United States. It took them ne...
27 Okt 20201h 1min
286 Elections in Early America: Native Sovereignty
Who is American democracy for and who could participate in early American democracy? Women and African Americans were often barred from voting in colonial and early republic elections. But what about ...
20 Okt 202056min
285 Elections in Early America: Elections & Voting in the Early American Republic
Independence from Great Britain provided the former British American colonists the opportunity to create a new, more democratic government than they had lived under before the American Revolution. Wh...
13 Okt 20201h 9min
284 Elections in Early America: Democracy & Voting in British North America
The British North American colonies formed some of the most democratic governments in the world. But that doesn't mean that all early Americans were treated equally or allowed to participate in repres...
6 Okt 202051min
Bonus: A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court
On Friday, September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died. Justice Ginsburg's death has caused a lot of debate about whether the President shou...
22 Sep 202012min
283 Acadie 300
2020 commemorates the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of North America, the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, an...
22 Sep 20201h 3min
282 Tacky's Revolt
Between 1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history of its empire. Although the revolt took place on the island of Jamaica, the reverberations of this ...
8 Sep 202059min
