Rebellion in the Early Republic - Nat Turner’s Rebellion | 6
In February 1831, a solar eclipse caused the skies to darken over the isolated backwater of Southampton County, Virginia. An enslaved man and self-proclaimed prophet named Nat Turner saw it as a sign ...
22 Apr 202037min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Gabriel’s Rebellion | 5
As a new century dawned on the United States, an enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel began planning a bold plot to overthrow slavery in Virginia’s capital. The uprising would change the future of slaver...
15 Apr 202040min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Crisis in the West | 4
In 1794, anti-government protests grew into an all-out rebellion, and President Washington faced his first major test of federal authority. Some 7,000 armed Westerners marched on Pittsburgh and threat...
8 Apr 202037min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - The Whiskey Rebellion | 3
Only a few years after Shays’ Rebellion was suppressed, a new revolt broke out in western Pennsylvania. Anti-government resentment had been growing on the frontier for years. Then in 1791, the U.S. go...
1 Apr 202042min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - A Constitution Shaped by Revolt | 2
Tensions reached a climax in the freezing winter of 1787, as Daniel Shays and 1,500 rebel soldiers stormed the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts. The rebels hoped to seize arms and ammunit...
25 Mar 202040min
Rebellion in the Early Republic - Farmer Uprising | 1
The dust had barely settled on the American Revolution when new unrest erupted in western Massachusetts. Thousands of farmers and laborers rose up in protest against unjust taxes and a state governmen...
18 Mar 202037min
Encore: What We Learned from Fighting the Spanish Flu | 1
In light of growing concerns about the coronavirus, we’re revisiting an episode we ran last spring. One hundred years ago, the Spanish flu pandemic forever reshaped the way the United States responds ...
11 Mar 202047min
Tulsa Race Massacre Update: Excavating Mass Graves | 7
New archaeological evidence suggests mass graves holding the remains of victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre may exist on two sites in Tulsa. And now scientists plan to excavate portions of those sites ...
4 Mar 202037min
