216 A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
What do George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They all grew-up in blended or stepfamilies. Lisa Wilson, the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History at Co...
11 Des 201843min
215 A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
We tend to view gay marriage as a cultural and legal development of the 21st century. But did you know that some early Americans lived openly as same-sex married couples? Rachel Hope Cleves, a Profes...
4 Des 201852min
214 Skpeticism and American Faith
Was the early United States a “Christian nation?” Did most of its citizenry accept God and the Bible as the moral authority that bound them together as one nation? Scholars have taken a binary stance ...
27 Nov 201856min
213 The Pilgrims of Plimoth
In 1621, the Pilgrims of Plimoth Colony and their Wampanoag neighbors came together to celebrate their first harvest. Today we remember this event as the first Thanksgiving. But what do we really know...
20 Nov 201858min
212 Researching Biography (Doing History)
How do historians and biographers reconstruct the lives of people from the past? Good biographies rely on telling the lives of people using practiced historical methods of thorough archival research a...
13 Nov 20181h 9min
Bonus: The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
As part of the Omohundro Institute's Doing History series on biography, Episode 212 offers us a new conversation with Erica Dunbar, the author of Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of T...
9 Nov 201852min
211 Considering John Marshall, Part 2 (Doing History)
Can a biography help us explore big historical questions? Can knowing about the life of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, help us better understand the Suprem...
6 Nov 20181h 10min
210 Considering John Marshall, Part 1 (Doing History)
For 34 years, John Marshall presided as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his service, Marshal transformed the nation’s top court and its judicial branch into the powerful b...
30 Okt 20181h 15min
