264 The Iroquois, United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua 1794
The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American War for Independence, but it did not bring peace to North America. After 1783, warfare and violence continued between Americans and Native Americans. So how...
12 Nov 201956min
263 The Medical Imagination
Did you know that imagination once played a key role in the way Americans understood and practiced medicine? Sari Altschuler, an Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University and author of...
5 Nov 201952min
262 Interpreting the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
History is an important tool when it comes to understanding American law. History is what the justices of the United States Supreme Court use when they want to ascertain what the framers meant when th...
29 Okt 20191h 2min
261 Creating the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution doesn’t always make headlines, but it’s an amendment that undergirds foundational rights. It’s also an amendment that can show us a lot about the...
22 Okt 201958min
260 Origins of the Bill of Rights (Doing History 4)
How and why did Congress draft the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution? In the United States, we use the Constitution and Bill of Rights to understand and define ourselves culturally. Americans a...
15 Okt 20191h 1min
259 The Bill of Rights & How Legal Historians Work (Doing History 4)
Law is all around us. And the basis of American Law comes not only from our early American past, but from our founding documents. This episode begins our 4th Doing History series. Over the next four e...
8 Okt 20191h 11min
258 John Dickinson: Life, Religion, and Politics
The Second Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 with 12 colonies and one abstention. The delegation from New York abstained from the vote. And Pennsylvania voted in favor of ind...
1 Okt 20191h 1min
257 Elizabeth Seton: An Early American Life
What was it like to live as a woman of faith in early republic America? What was it like to live as a Catholic in the early United States? Catherine O’Donnell, an Associate Professor of History at Ari...
24 Sep 201952min
