Inside Mount Vernon: George Washington's Home, Farm, and Contradictions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Inside the foyer of Mount Vernon hangs the key to the Bastille, a gift from Lafayette, while the...
3 Okt 23min
George Rogers Clark: Frontier Conqueror, Debt, and a Tragic Decline
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Rogers Clark helped secure the Old Northwest for the United States, yet died disabled and...
3 Okt 22min
General William Howe: The Reluctant British Commander Who Lost America
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Howe told his Nottingham voters in 1774 that he would not fight the Americans, then acce...
3 Okt 22min
The XYZ Affair: Talleyrand's Bribe Demand and the Quasi-War With France
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1797, three American envoys arrived in Paris to negotiate peace with France and were met by i...
3 Okt 27min
Battle of Long Island 1776: Washington's Blunder and Miraculous Escape
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Weeks after the Declaration of Independence, an armada of 400 British ships appeared off Staten ...
3 Okt 22min
The Flintlock Musket: How One Mechanism Reshaped Warfare and Language
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Everyday phrases like a flash in the pan, going off half-cocked, and lock, stock, and barrel all...
3 Okt 23min
Treaty of Ghent: How the War of 1812 Ended in a Diplomatic Reset
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Battle of New Orleans was fought in January 1815, weeks after the Treaty of Ghent had alread...
3 Okt 22min
Ethan Allen: Green Mountain Boys, Ticonderoga, and the Birth of Vermont
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ethan Allen captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775 without bloodshed, demanding its surrender in ...
3 Okt 26min
