This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who lo
On Friday, September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an Associate Justice of the United States Suprem
2020 commemorates the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of Nor
Between 1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history
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The American Revolution is embedded in the American character. It’s an event that can tell us who we
As the first President of the United States, George Washington set many precedents for the new natio
Polygamy is not a practice that often comes to mind when many of us think about early America. But i
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously as
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Who gets to be a founding father? “Founding Father” status goes to men who helped found the United S
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How did Americans learn to establish philanthropic institutions? Victoria Johnson, an Associate Prof
What do you know about the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution? Caitlin Galante-DeA
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts to spread the alarm that the Regular
How do you uncover the life of an enslaved person who left no paper trail? What can the everyday lif
What was everyday life like for average men and women in early America? Listeners ask this question
What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Frankli
How did the people of early America experience and feel about winter? Thomas Wickman, an Associate P
How did early Americans educate their children? How and when did Americans create a formal system of
