396 Carpenters' Hall & the First Continental Congress
“Monday, September 5, 1774. A number of the Delegates chosen and appointed by the Several Colonies and Provinces in North America to meet and hold a Congress at Philadelphia assembled at the Carpenter...
22 Okt 202444min
395 The Great New York Fire of 1776
When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries ov...
8 Okt 202458min
394 The Pursuit of Happiness
What did Thomas Jefferson and the members of the Second Continental Congress mean when they wrote “the pursuit of Happiness” into the United States Declaration of Independence? And why is pursuing hap...
24 Sep 20241h 2min
393 Politics & Political Culture in the Early American Republic
The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 have played a vital role in the rise of politics and politica...
10 Sep 20241h 7min
392 Religion and Race in Early America
What does history have to tell us about how we, as Americans, came to define people by their race; the visual ways we have grouped people together based on their skin color, facial features, hair text...
27 Aug 202455min
391 Government in Colonial Virginia
Do you ever wonder how governments met and worked in colonial British America? Williamsburg, Virginia, served as the capital of Virginia between 1699 and 1779. During its 80 years of service as cap...
13 Aug 20241h 2min
390 Objects of Revolution
When we think about the American Revolution, the French Revolution, or the Haitian Revolution, we think about the ideals of freedom and equality. These ideals were embedded and discussed in all of the...
30 Juli 20241h 2min
389 Indigenous Justice in Early America
Early North America was a place that contained hundreds of distinct Indigenous nations and peoples who spoke at least 2,000 distinct languages. In the early sixteenth century, Spain began to establish...
16 Juli 202455min
