177 The Social Life of Maps in America
Did you know that maps have social lives? Maps facilitate a lot of different social and political relationships between people and nations. And they did a lot of this work for Americans throughout th...
13 Mar 201857min
176 The Value of the Enslaved From Womb to Grave
What did it mean to be a person and to also be a commodity in early America? Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Bui...
6 Mar 201851min
175 House Divided: The Revolution in Ben Franklin's House
Just how personal was the American Revolution? What could the event and war mean for individual people and families? Daniel Mark Epstein, author of The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin’s House, gu...
27 Feb 201847min
174 Yellow Fever in the Early American Republic
It’s February 2018 and doctors have declared this year’s seasonal flu epidemic as one of the worst to hit the United States in over a decade. Yet this flu epidemic is nothing compared to the yellow fe...
20 Feb 201852min
173 Colonial Port Cities and Slavery
The histories of early North America and the Caribbean are intimately intertwined. The same European empires we encounter in our study of early America also appear in the Caribbean. The colonies of th...
13 Feb 201855min
172 Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
Intelligence gathering plays an important role in the foreign policies of many modern-day nation states, including the United States. Which raises the questions: How and when did the United States est...
6 Feb 201851min
171 Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade in North America
History books like to tell us that Native Americans did not fully understand British methods and ideas of trade. Is this really true? Did Native Americans only understand trade as a form of simplisti...
30 Jan 20181h 1min
170 New England Bound: Slavery in Early New England
New England was a place with no cash crops. It was a place where many of its earliest settlers came to live just so they could worship their Puritan faith freely. New England was also a place that bec...
23 Jan 201844min
