Jamestown: The British and The Powhatan
From suspicion, to siege, to collaboration, to all out war - in this episode we uncover the complex reality of the Jamestown colonists' relationship with the Indigenous peoples of the East Coast. What...
10 Feb 20251h 7min
Frederick Douglass: Enslavement & Escape
Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his tr...
6 Feb 202551min
Jamestown: The Journey To America
In May 1607, over 100 English settlers arrived at Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast of North America. Traveling 50 miles inland along the James River, they established what would become the first perma...
3 Feb 202530min
FDR & Churchill
FDR and Winston Churchill spent 113 days in each others' company during WWII. FDR even saw Churchill naked. But how close were the pair in personality and in strategy? How did the personal relationshi...
30 Jan 202541min
What Does 'Caucasian' Mean?
In the 19th Century, a war on the boundary between Europe and Asia had an unexpected effect. It caused the American public to re-examine one of the terms with which they described race: Caucasian.Don ...
27 Jan 202540min
FDR & Stalin
They say that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, but did that apply to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Soviet counterpart, Joseph Stalin, during the Second World War?Despite their ideolog...
23 Jan 202533min
Romans in America
Why was there once a fashion for styling your hair like Brutus, the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins? Why are there so many neoclassical buildings in the United States? And how was the Ancient...
20 Jan 202538min
FDR vs Hitler
The leaders of the two most powerful nations fighting in the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, never met. They never even spoke.In this episode, we explore the war of...
16 Jan 20251h 1min
