187 Sport in Early America
Our present-day American culture is obsessed with sports. To cite just two pieces of evidence of this, on average, more than 67,000 fans attend each National Football League game and more than 30,000 ...
22 Maj 201852min
186 The New Map of the British Empire
As a result of Great Britain’s victory in the Seven Years’ War, British North America expanded so that it stretched from the Atlantic seaboard west to the Mississippi River and from Hudson Bay and the...
15 Maj 20181h 7min
185 Early New York City and its Culture
Who should determine our culture and the morals our society follows? Culture, or the intellectual achievements, attitudes, and behaviors of our particular places and social groups, is all around us. ...
8 Maj 201858min
184 Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
Early North America was a place rife with violent conflict. Between the 17th and 19th centuries we see a lot of conflict between different Native American peoples, Native American peoples and colonist...
1 Maj 201857min
183 George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington played three very important public roles during his lifetime. He served as the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, the President of the Constitutional Convention, and as the ...
24 Apr 20181h 8min
182 Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: The Great Awakening in New England
What was it like to live through an extraordinary time? The 1740s and 1750s proved to be an extraordinary time for many ordinary New Englanders. It was a period when itinerant preachers swept through...
17 Apr 20181h
181 The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale & Moses Dunbar
Why did early Americans choose to become patriots or loyalists during the American Revolution? How did they make the decision to either stand with or against their neighbors? Did political beliefs r...
10 Apr 201855min
180 Alexander Hamilton and the Making of American Law
The legacy of Alexander Hamilton tells us that he was Thomas Jefferson’s political rival, a man who fought to secure strong powers for the national government, and the first Secretary of the Treasury....
3 Apr 20181h 1min
