022 Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache: Benjamin Franklin's Women
Have you heard the saying that behind every great man stands a great woman? Vivian Bruce Conger, the Robert Ryan Professor in the Humanities at Ithaca College, joins us to explore the two great women...
24 Mar 201551min
021 Smuggling in Colonial America & Living History
Do you know that John Hancock was a smuggler? Smuggling presented a large problem for the imperial governments of Great Britain and France during the colonial period. Eugene Tesdahl, an Assistant Pr...
17 Mar 20151h 1min
020 Four Steeples Over the City Streets
Have you ever wondered about how early American men, women, and slaves worshipped? Religion played a large role in why some Europeans settled in British North America. The Puritans of New England, ...
10 Mar 201551min
019 The Colonial Boston Marketplace
Have you ever wondered where colonial Americans purchased their food? Although many colonial Americans lived in rural areas or on farms where they could grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs, graze thei...
3 Mar 201548min
018 Our Declaration
Do you know who authored the Declaration of Independence? If you answered “Thomas Jefferson,” you would be wrong. Jefferson merely wrote the first draft of a document others created. In this episode...
24 Feb 201548min
017 When the United States Spoke French
Parlez-vous Français? Do you speak French? Believe it or not in the 1790s many Americans spoke French. They may not have spoken the French language, but they understood and embraced French culture,...
17 Feb 201553min
016 The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
The United States claimed victory in the War of 1812, but did you know that the British nearly won the war by promising freedom to escaped slaves in Virginia and Maryland? Two-time Pulitzer Prize win...
10 Feb 201543min
015 Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue as part of the great European quest to find new routes and shortcuts to the spice islands and territories of Asia. Spain and Portugal led this ques...
3 Feb 201544min
