This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who lo
Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from Br
In many ways, the Enlightenment gave birth to the United States. Enlightened ideas informed protests
What happened to the loyalists who stayed in the United States after the War for Independence? After
Early America was a diverse place. It contained many different people who had many different traditi
What did the American Revolution mean and achieve? What sort of liberty and freedom did independence
In December 1773, the Cape Cod Tea Crisis revealed that the people of “radical” Massachusetts were f
Did the Americans win the War for Independence? Or did the British simply lose the war? The history
The Spanish, French, and English played large roles in the origins of colonial America. But so too d
How do you build colonies without women? Most of the colonial adventurers from England and France wh
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved that the Second Continental Congress resolve “t
How did the smallest colony and smallest state in the union became the largest American participant
Thomas Jefferson wrote about liberty and freedom and yet owned over six hundred slaves during his li
When we think of the French and Indian, or Seven Years’ War, we often think of battles: The Monongah
Like many states in the south and west, Texas has an interesting early American past that begins wit
Throughout the “Doing History: How Historians Work” series we’ve explored how historians find and re
History has a history and genealogy has a history. And the histories of both affect how and why we s
After seven, long years of occupation, Americans found New York City in shambles after the British e
On December 16, 1773, the colonists of Boston threw 342 chests of English East India Company tea int
Neither colonial North America nor the United States developed apart from the rest of the world. Sin
History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. Like history, genealogy studies people
