260 Origins of the Bill of Rights (Doing History 4)
How and why did Congress draft the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution? In the United States, we use the Constitution and Bill of Rights to understand and define ourselves culturally. Americans ...
15 Okt 20191h 3min
259 The Bill of Rights & How Legal Historians Work (Doing History 4)
Law is all around us. And the basis of American Law comes not only from our early American past, but from our founding documents. This episode begins our 4th Doing History series. Over the next four ...
8 Okt 20191h 13min
258 John Dickinson: Life, Religion, and Politics
The Second Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 with 12 colonies and one abstention. The delegation from New York abstained from the vote. And Pennsylvania voted in favor of ind...
1 Okt 20191h 2min
257 Elizabeth Seton: An Early American Life
What was it like to live as a woman of faith in early republic America? What was it like to live as a Catholic in the early United States? Catherine O’Donnell, an Associate Professor of History at Ar...
24 Sep 201953min
256 Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake
How do empires come to be? How are empires made and who makes them? What role do maps play in making empires? Christian Koot is a Professor of History at Towson University and the author of A Biogra...
17 Sep 20191h 2min
255 Birthright Citizenship
Who gets to be a citizen of the United States? How does the United States define who belongs to the nation? Early Americans asked and grappled with these questions during the earliest days of the ear...
10 Sep 201959min
254 The Money Question in Early America
We read and hear a lot about money. We read and hear about fluctuations in the value of the Dollar, Pound, and Euro, interest rates and who can and can’t get access to credit, and we also read and hea...
3 Sep 201955min
253 Life and Revolution in Boston and Grenada
What can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America? What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about life in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions? These a...
27 Aug 201946min
