324 New Netherland and Slavery
After Henry Hudson’s 1609-voyage along the river that now bears his name, Dutch traders began to visit and trade at the area they called New Netherland. In 1614, the Dutch established a trading post n...
15 Mars 20221h 6min
323 American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder
In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern borders of Canada and Georgia. How would the United States take ...
1 Mars 20221h 22min
322 Running from Bondage in Revolutionary America
During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’ war effort by issuing two proclamations that promised freedom t...
15 Feb 202256min
321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July?
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In this episode, we explore Douglass’ thoughtful que...
1 Feb 20221h 17min
320 Benjamin Franklin's London House
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706, to Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin. Although Franklin began his life as the youngest son of a youngest son, he traveled through many parts of...
18 Jan 20221h 13min
319 Cuba: An Early American History
One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico in between the Yucatán and Florida ...
4 Jan 20221h 7min
Bonus: Colonial Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri
What challenges do National Park Service interpretive rangers face when they interpret non-British colonial history? How did the relationships between Ste. Geneviéve's inhabitants and Indigenous peopl...
31 Dec 202111min
318 Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park
About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviéve reveals much about what it was like ...
21 Dec 20211h
