268 BFW Team Favorites: Young Benjamin Franklin
What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the early American past because as a man of “variety” he pursued m...
10 Dec 20191h 3min
266 Education in Early America
How did early Americans educate their children? How and when did Americans create a formal system of public education? You sent me these questions for Episode 200: Everyday Life in Early America. You...
26 Nov 201933min
265 An Early History of the White House
On July 1, 1790, Congress passed “An Act for Establishing the temporary and permanent Seat of the Government of the United States.” This act formalized a plan to move the capital of the United States ...
19 Nov 20191h 2min
264 The Iroquois, United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua 1794
The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American War for Independence, but it did not bring peace to North America. After 1783, warfare and violence continued between Americans and Native Americans. So how...
12 Nov 201958min
263 The Medical Imagination
Did you know that imagination once played a key role in the way Americans understood and practiced medicine? Sari Altschuler, an Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University and author o...
5 Nov 201953min
262 Interpreting the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
History is an important tool when it comes to understanding American law. History is what the justices of the United States Supreme Court use when they want to ascertain what the framers meant when t...
29 Okt 20191h 4min
261 Creating the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution doesn’t always make headlines, but it’s an amendment that undergirds foundational rights. It’s also an amendment that can show us a lot about the...
22 Okt 20191h
