054 American Exceptionalism: The History of an Idea
The United States is a diverse nation of immigrants and their ancestors. With such diversity, and no one origination point for its people, how do we describe what the United States is and what its peo...
3 Nov 201554min
053 The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Do you believe in the supernatural? In ghosts, zombies, or perhaps witches? Today we celebrate All Hallows Eve with an exploration of the specters and witches that haunted 17th-century Massachusetts....
27 Okt 201546min
052 Diplomacy in Black and White: Early United States-Haitian Relations
Much like the United States, the colonists of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) sought their independence from France by fighting a war and waging a revolution. However, unlike the Americans, the San...
20 Okt 201550min
051 Frontier Seaport: A History of Early Detroit
Located 600 miles inland from Philadelphia and over 700 miles from Québec City, early Detroit could have been a backwater, a frontier post that Europeans established to protect colonial settlements fr...
13 Okt 201555min
050 Betsy Ross and the Making of America
How did every day men and women experience life in colonial America? How did the American Revolution transform their work and personal lives? Today, we explore the answers to those questions by inve...
6 Okt 201545min
049 How the English Became American
Why did England want to establish colonies in North America and how did Englishmen go about establishing them? We explore the early days of English settlement in North America with Malcolm Gaskill, P...
29 Sep 201542min
048 Dangerous Guests; Enemy Captives During the War for Independence
When we think about the War for American Independence many of us conjure images of Washington crossing the Delaware, Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown, or perhaps the freezing winters at Valley Forge ...
22 Sep 201542min
047 Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic
Where did the United States fit within the world between 1810 and 1847? After the United States secured its independence from Great Britain, many Americans looked at the world and wondered about thei...
15 Sep 201550min
