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
233 A History of Russian America
When we think about colonial American history we think about the colonies of the English, the Dutch, the French, and the Spanish. Rarely do we think about the colonies of the Russians. And yet Russia ...
9 Apr 201949min
232 The Acadian Diaspora
Before the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 or the Dutch settled near Albany, New York in 1615, a group of French-speaking, Catholic settlers established a settlement in Nova Scotia in 1...
2 Apr 20191h 4min
