343 Music and Song in Native North America
What was music like in Early America? How did different early Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and White Americans—integrate and use music in their daily lives? Your questions about mus...
22 Nov 202247min
342 The Great Power of Small Native Nations
Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French colonization in the Gulf South region? Elizabeth Ellis, an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton Uni...
8 Nov 20221h 13min
341 Possession and Exorcism in New France
Prepare for tricks, treats, and time travel! In honor of Halloween, we’re traveling back to the mid-seventeenth century to investigate a case of demonic possession and the practice of exorcism in New ...
25 Okt 20221h 2min
340: Prisoners of War and the War of 1812
The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it was not a war that the United States can claim it clearly won....
11 Okt 20221h 18min
339 Women and the Constitutional Moment of 1787
Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we now call the Constitutional Convention. What do we know about...
27 Sep 20221h 15min
338 The Early History of the United States Senate
On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the states for ratification. In honor of Constitution Day, we jo...
13 Sep 20221h 20min
337 Early America's Trade with China
What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’ independence was to establish a trade with China and other Southeas...
30 Aug 20221h 1min
336 Surviving the Southampton Rebellion
What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising? Over the course of the early republic, we see a few violent slave uprisings in the United States. A particularly brutal rebellion took place in L...
16 Aug 20221h 12min
