099 Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World
Pirates are alive and well in our popular culture. Thanks to movies like Pirates of the Caribbean and television shows like Black Sails, we see pirates as peg-legged, eye-patch wearing, rum-drinking m...
13 Sep 201645min
098 Birth of the American Tax Man
Could customs collectors, the tax men of early America, be the unsung founders of the early United States? Today, we explore the creation of the United States customs service and its contributions to...
6 Sep 201649min
097 How to Organize Your Research (Doing History)
What do historians do with all of the information they collect when they research? How do they access their research in a way that allows them to find the information they need to write the books and...
30 Aug 201648min
096 The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States
Ever wonder how the United States’ problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn’t find a way to fix it during the earliest days of the republic? Today, Nicholas Guyatt, author of...
23 Aug 20161h 4min
095 A Tale of Two Bostons
The City Upon a Hill. The Athens of America. The Cradle of Liberty. Boston has many names because it has played important roles in the history of North America. But how did Boston, or “The Hub,” come...
16 Aug 201640min
094 Founding Friendships
Who are you friends with? Why are you friends with your friends? In the early American republic, men and women formed and maintained friendships for many of the same reasons we make friends today: c...
9 Aug 201644min
093 Harvard University & Colonial North America
What can the collections of the Harvard University Libraries teach us about our early American past? It turns out, quite a lot. Taylor Stoermer, a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of A...
2 Aug 201645min
092 How to Research History Online (Doing History)
How do historians conduct research online? This is your second-most asked question after how did everyday people live their day-to-day lives in early America. As the “Doing History” series explores h...
26 Jul 201655min
