241 Pearls and the Nature of the Spanish Empire
Spain became the first European power to use the peoples, resources, and lands of the Americas and Caribbean as the basis for its Atlantic Empire. How did this empire function and what wealth was Spa...
4 Juni 201959min
240 Biography and a Biographer's Work
Have you ever had one of those really conversations where the person was so fascinating that you wished the conversation didn’t have to end? Flora Fraser joins us for one of those conversations. We’l...
28 Maj 201946min
239 Travel and Post in Early America
How did the postal system work in Early America? How did people send mail across the North American colonies and the British Empire? Joseph Adelman, an Assistant Professor of History at Framingham St...
21 Maj 201938min
238 Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold is an intriguing figure. He was both a military hero who greatly impacted and furthered the American War for Independence with his bravery on the battlefield and someone who did someth...
14 Maj 20191h 13min
237 Motherhood in Early America
Mother’s Day became a national holiday on May 9, 1914 to honor all of the work mothers do to raise children. But what precisely is the work that mothers do to raise children? Has the nature of mother...
7 Maj 201956min
236 Mixed-Race Britons and the Atlantic Family
Who do we count as family? If a relative was born in a foreign place and one of their parents was of a different race? Would they count as family? Eighteenth-century Britons asked themselves these q...
30 Apr 20191h
235 A 17th-Century Native American Life
What does early America look like if we view it through Native American eyes? Jenny Hale Pulsipher, an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and author of Swindler Sachem, is a s...
23 Apr 20191h 4min
234 Farms & Farm Families in Early America
If we want to understand everyday life in early America we need to understand the everyday life of early American farms and farmers. Roughly three-quarters of Americans in British North America and t...
16 Apr 201949min
