This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who lo
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Who should determine our culture and the morals our society follows? Culture, or the intellectual ac
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George Washington played three very important public roles during his lifetime. He served as the Com
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The legacy of Alexander Hamilton tells us that he was Thomas Jefferson’s political rival, a man who
Douglas Winiarski answers your questions about religion in early New England with details from his b
The Confederation period is one of the most neglected aspects of United States History. And yet, it’
In 1535, Spanish holdings in the Americas proved so great that the Spanish government created the Vi
Did you know that maps have social lives? Maps facilitate a lot of different social and political re
What did it mean to be a person and to also be a commodity in early America? Daina Ramey Berry, auth
Just how personal was the American Revolution? What could the event and war mean for individual peop
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The histories of early North America and the Caribbean are intimately intertwined. The same European
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History books like to tell us that Native Americans did not fully understand British methods and ide
New England was a place with no cash crops. It was a place where many of its earliest settlers came
We remember Benjamin Franklin as an accomplished printer, scientist, and statesman. Someone who came
