131 Thomas Jefferson's Empire of Liberty
The United States has a complicated history when it comes to ideas of empire and imperialism. Since it’s earliest days, the United States has wanted the power that came with being an empire even while...
25 Apr 201752min
130 Paul Revere's Ride Through History (Doing History Rev)
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts to spread the alarm that the Regulars were marching. Revere made several important rides between 1774 and 1775, including one in Septemb...
18 Apr 20171h 33min
129 The Road to Concord, 1775
How did the colonists of Massachusetts go from public protests meant to shame government officials and destroy offending property, to armed conflict with British Regulars in Lexington and Concord? Jo...
11 Apr 201756min
128 American Revolutions: A Continental History
Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the...
4 Apr 201749min
127 American Enlightenments
In many ways, the Enlightenment gave birth to the United States. Enlightened ideas informed protests over imperial governance and taxation and over whether there should be an American bishop. If we w...
28 Mar 201758min
126 The Reintegration of American Loyalists
What happened to the loyalists who stayed in the United States after the War for Independence? After the war, 60,000 loyalists and 15,000 slaves evacuated the United States. But thousands more opted ...
21 Mar 201748min
125 Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America
Early America was a diverse place. It contained many different people who had many different traditions that informed how they lived…and died. How did early Americans understand death? What did they ...
14 Mar 201739min
124 Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
What did the American Revolution mean and achieve? What sort of liberty and freedom did independence grant Americans and which Americans should receive them? Americans grappled with these questions s...
7 Mar 201755min
