149 Benjamin Franklin in London
Over the course of his long life, Benjamin Franklin traveled to and lived in London on two different occasions. The first time he went as a teenager. The second, as a man and colonial agent. All told ...
29 Aug 201756min
148 Betsy Ross
How did everyday men and women experience life in the colonial America? How did the American Revolution transform their work and personal lives? Marla Miller, a professor of history at the Universit...
22 Aug 201749min
147 British Soldiers, American War
What about the British Redcoats? When we discuss the military history of the American War for Independence, we tend to focus on specific battles or details about the men who served in George Washingt...
15 Aug 201748min
146 George Washington's Revolution
What drove George Washington to become a Patriot during the American Revolution? How did he overcome the ill-trained and inexperienced troops, inadequate pay, and supply problems that plagued the Con...
8 Aug 201753min
145 Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
Mercy Otis Warren wasn’t your typical early American woman. She was a woman with strong political viewpoints, which she wrote about and published for the world to see and consider. Did anyone take he...
1 Aug 20171h 2min
144 The Common Cause of the American Revolution
How do you get people living in thirteen different colonies to come together and fight for independence? What ideas and experiences would even unite them behind the fight? Patriot leaders asked them...
25 Jul 201756min
143 The Making of the United States Constitution
How did the framers draft the Constitution of 1787? What powers does the Constitution provide the federal government? Why do we elect the President of the United States by an electoral system rather t...
18 Jul 20171h 9min
142 A History of Abolition
Most histories of American abolitionism begin just before the Civil War, during the Antebellum period. But the movement to end chattel slavery in America began long before the United States was a nati...
11 Jul 201759min
