060 Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Did Washington really start the French and Indian War? Why should we remember a battle that took place over 260 years ago? In this episode, we investigate the answers to those questions as we explore ...
15 Dec 201556min
059 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Between the 1830s and 1860s, a clandestine communications and transportation network called the “Underground Railroad” helped thousands of slaves escape to freedom. Today, we will investigate and expl...
8 Dec 201542min
058 Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
Why do we refer to the men who founded the United States as the “founding fathers?” Why do we choose to remember the American Revolution as a glorious event that had almost universal, colonial support...
1 Dec 201533min
057 War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
Do you know what we have in common with our early American forebears? Taxes. As Benjamin Franklin stated in 1789, “nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Given the certainty of taxes it seems import...
24 Nov 201548min
056 The Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761
Between 1754 and 1763, North Americans participated in the French and Indian War; a world war Europeans call the Seven Years’ War. As this world war raged, many South Carolinians, Virginians, Britons,...
17 Nov 201543min
055 John Jay: Forgotten Founder
Who was John Jay? Jay played important and prominent roles during the founding of the United States and yet, his name isn’t one that many would list if asked to name founding fathers. Today, we explor...
10 Nov 201542min
054 American Exceptionalism: The History of an Idea
The United States is a diverse nation of immigrants and their ancestors. With such diversity, and no one origination point for its people, how do we describe what the United States is and what its peo...
3 Nov 201552min
053 The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Do you believe in the supernatural? In ghosts, zombies, or perhaps witches? Today we celebrate All Hallows Eve with an exploration of the specters and witches that haunted 17th-century Massachusetts. ...
27 Okt 201544min
