Ben Franklin's World
By Liz Covart
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Heidi
Jan 23, 2023
A wonderful mix of interesting content and scholarly expertise!
Apr 25, 2019
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Feb 2, 2019
I really enjoy these podcasts! I think of Liz as a friend. I've learned a lot from listening to every podcast posted to date.
Description
This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who love history and who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.
Each episode features conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history. It is produced by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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BFW Revisited: World of the Wampanoag, Pt. 1
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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397 Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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BFW Revisited: Committees & Congresses of the American Revolution
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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396 Carpenters' Hall & the First Continental Congress
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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395 The Great New York Fire of 1776
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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394 The Pursuit of Happiness
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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393 Politics & Political Culture in the Early American Republic
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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392 Religion and Race in Early America
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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391 Government in Colonial Virginia
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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390 Objects of Revolution
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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389 Indigenous Justice in Early America
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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388 John Hancock
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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387 California and Slavery
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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386 Sleeping with the Ancestors
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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385 Did George Washington Have Heirs?
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May 28, 2024 |
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384 Making Maine: A Journey to Statehood
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May 14, 2024 |
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383 Aquatic Culture in Early America
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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382 Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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381 Texas in the Spanish Empire
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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380 The Tory's Wife
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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379 Women Healers in Early America
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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378 Everyday Black Living in Early America
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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377 Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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376 Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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375 Misinformation Nation: Fake News in Early America
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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374 The American Revolutionary War in the West
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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373 The Gaspee Affair, 1772
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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372 A History of the Myaamia
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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371 An Archive of Indigenous Slavery
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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370 The Ruin of All Witches
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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369 Livestock and Animal Breeds in Early America
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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368 Legacies of the Brafferton Indian School
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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367 The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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366 James Wilson & the U.S. Constitution
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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365 Road Trip 2023: Early Settlement at Île Ste. Jean
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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364 Road Trip 2023: La Pointe-Krebs House & Museum
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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363 Road Trip 2023: Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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362 Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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361 The Fourth of July in 2026
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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360 Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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358 St. Augustine & Early Florida
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May 23, 2023 |
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357, Privateering in the American Revolution
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May 09, 2023 |
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356 The Moravian Church in North America
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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355 The Virginia Venture
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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354 The Sewing Girl's Tale
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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353 Women and the Making of Catawba Identity
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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352 James Forten and the Making of the United States
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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351 Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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350 The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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349 The Women Behind Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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348 Valley Forge
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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347 African and African American Music
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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346 Music and Politics in the Early United States
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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345 Amateur Musicians in the Early United States
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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344 Music in British North America
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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343 Music and Song in Native North America
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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342 The Great Power of Small Native Nations
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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341 Possession and Exorcism in New France
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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340: Prisoners of War and the War of 1812
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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339 Women and the Constitutional Moment of 1787
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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338 The Early History of the United States Senate
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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337 Early America's Trade with China
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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336 Surviving the Southampton Rebellion
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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335 The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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334 Missions & Mission Building in New Spain
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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333 Experiences of Revolution: Disruptions in Yorktown
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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332 Experiences of Revolution: Occupied Philadelphia
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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331 The Discovery of the Williamsburg Bray School
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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330 Loyalism in the British Atlantic World
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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329 Freemasonry in Early America
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May 24, 2022 |
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328 Free People of Color in Early America
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May 10, 2022 |
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327 Benjamin Franklin: A Film by Ken Burns
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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326 The Greek Revolution in Early America
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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325 Everyday People of the American Revolution
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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324 New Netherland and Slavery
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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323 American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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322 Running from Bondage in Revolutionary America
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July?
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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320 Benjamin Franklin's London House
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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319 Cuba: An Early American History
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Bonus: Colonial Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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318 Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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317 American Jewish Historical Society, Jews in Early America
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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316 Yellow Fever, Immunity, & Early New Orleans
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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315 History & American Democracy
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Bonus: The Object of History
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Bonus: Colin Calloway, Native Americans in American Cities
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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314 Native Americans in Early American Cities
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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OI Reads: Carolyn Eastman, The Strange Genius of Mr. O
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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313 The Marquis de Lafayette
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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312 The Domestic Slave Trade
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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311 Religion and the American Revolution
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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310 The Blackfeet: A History
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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309 Merchant Ships of the Eighteenth Century
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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308 Slavery and Freedom in French Louisiana
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Bonus: A History of American Revolution Histories
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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307 History & the American Revolution
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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306 The Horse's Tail
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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305 Speaking with the Dead in Early America
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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304 On Juneteenth
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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303 An Early History of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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May 25, 2021 |
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302 From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 2
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May 11, 2021 |
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301 From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 1
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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300 Vast Early America
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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299 Colonial Virginia Portraits
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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298 Origins of American Manufacturing
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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297 Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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296 The Boston Massacre: A Family History
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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295 Whitney Plantation Museum
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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294 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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293 Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholding in Jamaica
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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292 Craft in Early America
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Bonus: The Plimoth Patuxet and Tomaquag Museums
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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291 The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2: 1620 and Beyond
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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290 The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1: Before 1620
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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289 Maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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288 Smugglers & Patriots in the 18th-Century Atlantic
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Our History Has Always Been Spoken: Trailer for Massachusetts, 1620 Series
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Bonus. Listener Q&A: The Early History of the United States Congress
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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287 Elections in Early America: Presidential Elections & the Electoral College
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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286 Elections in Early America: Native Sovereignty
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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285 Elections in Early America: Elections & Voting in the Early American Republic
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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284 Elections in Early America: Democracy & Voting in British North America
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Bonus: A Brief History of the United States Supreme Court
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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283 Acadie 300
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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282 Tacky's Revolt
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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281 The Business of Slavery
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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280 The British Are Coming
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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279 The Cabinet: Creation of an American Institution
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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278 Polygamy: An Early American History
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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277 Whose Fourth of July?
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Bonus Listener Q & A: Young Benjamin Franklin
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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276 Benjamin Rush: Founding Father
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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275 Pets in Early America
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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274 Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
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May 19, 2020 |
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273 David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic
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May 05, 2020 |
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272 Origins of the 11th Amendment
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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271 BFW Team Favorites: Paul Revere's Ride Through History
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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270 BFW Team Favorites: Slavery & Freedom in Early Maryland
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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269 BFW Team Favorites: One Colonial Woman's World
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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268 BFW Team Favorites: Young Benjamin Franklin
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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267 Winter in the Early American Northeast
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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266 Education in Early America
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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265 An Early History of the White House
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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264 The Iroquois, United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua 1794
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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263 The Medical Imagination
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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262 Interpreting the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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261 Creating the Fourth Amendment (Doing History 4)
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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260 Origins of the Bill of Rights (Doing History 4)
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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259 The Bill of Rights & How Legal Historians Work (Doing History 4)
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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258 John Dickinson: Life, Religion, and Politics
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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257 Elizabeth Seton: An Early American Life
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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256 Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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255 Birthright Citizenship
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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254 The Money Question in Early America
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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253 Life and Revolution in Boston and Grenada
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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252 The Highland Soldier in North America
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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251 Frontiers of Science
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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250 Virginia, 1619
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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249 BFW Road Trip: James Monroe's Highland
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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248 BFW Road Trip: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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247 BFW Road Trip: Schoharie Crossing
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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246 BFW Road Trip: Château de Ramezay
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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245 Celebrating the Fourth
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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244 Shoe Stories From Early America
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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243 Revolutionary Print Networks
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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242 An Early History of Delaware
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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241 Pearls and the Nature of the Spanish Empire
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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240 Biography and a Biographer's Work
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May 28, 2019 |
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239 Travel and Post in Early America
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May 21, 2019 |
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238 Benedict Arnold
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May 14, 2019 |
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237 Motherhood in Early America
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May 07, 2019 |
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236 Mixed-Race Britons and the Atlantic Family
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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235 A 17th-Century Native American Life
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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234 Farms & Farm Families in Early America
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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233 A History of Russian America
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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232 The Acadian Diaspora
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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231 The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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230 First Martyr of Liberty
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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229 The Townshend Moment
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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228 The Boston Massacre
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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227 Copyright & Fair Use in Early America
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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226 Making the State of South Carolina
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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225 The Poison Plot: Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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224 Aquatic Culture in Early America
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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223 A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes Region
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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222 The Early History of Washington, D.C.
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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221 The Culinary Adventures of Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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220 New England Indians, Colonists, & the Origins of American Slavery
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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219 Taverns in Early America
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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218 How the Dutch Brough Us Santa, Presents, & Treats
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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217 Slavery and Freedom in Early Maryland
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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216 A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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215 A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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214 Skpeticism and American Faith
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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213 The Pilgrims of Plimoth
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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212 Researching Biography (Doing History)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Bonus: The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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211 Considering John Marshall, Part 2 (Doing History)
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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210 Considering John Marshall, Part 1 (Doing History)
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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209 Considering Biography (Doing History)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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208 Turning Points of the American Revolution
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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207 Young Benjamin Franklin
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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206 Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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205 First Ladies of the Republic
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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204 The Burr Conspiracy
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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203 Alexander Hamilton
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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202 The Early History of the United States Congress
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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201 Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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200 Everyday Life in Early America
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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199 Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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198 Saltwater Frontier: Native Americans and the Contest for the Northeastern Coast
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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197 Native American Slavery in New France
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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196 Information Exchange in the Early Southeast
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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195 Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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194 Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Bonus: Behind the Scenes of the Adams-Jefferson Letters
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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193 Partisans: The Friendship and Rivalry of Adams and Jefferson
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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192 The Secret History of the Jersey Devil
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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191 A New History of King Philip's War
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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190 Origins of the American Middle Class
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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189 The Little Ice Age
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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188 The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
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May 29, 2018 |
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187 Sport in Early America
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May 22, 2018 |
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186 The New Map of the British Empire
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May 15, 2018 |
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185 Early New York City and its Culture
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May 08, 2018 |
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184 Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
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May 01, 2018 |
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183 George Washington's Mount Vernon
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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182 Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: The Great Awakening in New England
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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181 The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale & Moses Dunbar
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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180 Alexander Hamilton and the Making of American Law
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Bonus: Listener Q&A About Religion in Early New England
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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179 After the Revolution: Governance During the Critical Period
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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178 Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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177 The Social Life of Maps in America
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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176 The Value of the Enslaved From Womb to Grave
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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175 House Divided: The Revolution in Ben Franklin's House
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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174 Yellow Fever in the Early American Republic
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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173 Colonial Port Cities and Slavery
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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172 Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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171 Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade in North America
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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170 New England Bound: Slavery in Early New England
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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169 The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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168 Wild By Nature: Colonists and Animals in North America
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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167 The Early History of New Orleans
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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166 Freedom and the American Revolution
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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165 The Age of Revolutions
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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164 The American Revolution in the Age of Revolutions
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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163 The American Revolution in North America
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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162 Dunmore's New World: The Revolution and the British Empire
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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161 Smuggling and the American Revolution
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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160 The Politics of Tea
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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159 The Revolutionary Economy
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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158 The Revolutionaries' Army
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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157 The Revolution's African American Soldiers (Doing History Rev)
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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156 Power of the Press in the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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155 Pauline Maier's American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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154 The Freedoms We Lost (Doing History Rev)
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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153 Committees and Congress: Governments of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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152 Origins of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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151 Defining the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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150 Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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149 Benjamin Franklin in London
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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148 Betsy Ross
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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147 British Soldiers, American War
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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146 George Washington's Revolution
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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145 Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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144 The Common Cause of the American Revolution
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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143 The Making of the United States Constitution
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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142 A History of Abolition
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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141 A Declaration in Draft (Doing History Rev)
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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140 Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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139 The Other Slavery: Indian Enslavement in the Americas
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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138 Frontier Politics in Early America
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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137 The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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136 Material Culture and the Making of America
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May 30, 2017 |
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135 Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
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May 23, 2017 |
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134 Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
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May 16, 2017 |
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133 The Nat Turner Revolt
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May 09, 2017 |
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132 Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire
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May 02, 2017 |
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131 Thomas Jefferson's Empire of Liberty
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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130 Paul Revere's Ride Through History (Doing History Rev)
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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129 The Road to Concord, 1775
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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128 American Revolutions: A Continental History
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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127 American Enlightenments
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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126 The Reintegration of American Loyalists
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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125 Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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124 Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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123: Revolutionary Allegiances (Doing History Rev)
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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122 The Men Who Lost America
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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121 The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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120 A History of Mail Order Brides in Early America
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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119 The Heart of the Declaration
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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118 The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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117 The Life and Ideas of Thomas Jefferson
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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116 Disease & The Seven Years' War
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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115 The Early American History of Texas
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Bonus: History & Historians in the Public (Doing History)
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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114 The History of Genealogy (Doing History)
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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113 Building the Empire State
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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112 The Tea Crisis of 1773 (Doing History Revolution)
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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111 India in the Making of Britain and America, 1700-1830
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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110 How Genealogists Research (Doing History)
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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109 The American Enlightenment & Cadwallader Colden
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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108 The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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107 Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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106 The World of John Singleton Copley
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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105 How Historians Publish History (Doing History)
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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104 The Saltwater Frontier
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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103 James Monroe & His Estate Highland
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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102 George Rogers Clark
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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101 How Historians Write About History (Doing History)
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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100 Behind-the-Scenes with Liz Covart & Ben Franklin's World
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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099 Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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098 Birth of the American Tax Man
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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097 How to Organize Your Research (Doing History)
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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096 The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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095 A Tale of Two Bostons
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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094 Founding Friendships
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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093 Harvard University & Colonial North America
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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092 How to Research History Online (Doing History)
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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091 Rumors, Legends, & Hoaxes in Early America
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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090 Age of American Revolutions
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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089 Slavery & Freedom in Early Maryland
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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088 The History of History Writing (Doing History)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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087 Shays' Rebellion
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Jun 21, 2016 |
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086 Benjamin Franklin in London
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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085 American Loyalists in Canada
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Jun 07, 2016 |
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084 How Historians Read Historical Sources (Doing History)
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May 31, 2016 |
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083 Unfreedom: Slavery in Colonial Boston
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May 24, 2016 |
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082 Information & Communication in the Early American South
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May 17, 2016 |
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081 After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
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May 10, 2016 |
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080 Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
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May 03, 2016 |
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079 What is a Historical Source? (Doing History)
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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078 Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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077 The Oregon Trail
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Apr 12, 2016 |
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076 Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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075 How Archives Work (Doing History)
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Mar 29, 2016 |
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074 Martha Washington
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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073 The Bible in Early America
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Mar 15, 2016 |
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072 The American Civil War
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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071 Saratoga and Hubbardton, 1777
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Mar 01, 2016 |
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070 How Historians Research (Doing History)
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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069 Law, Order, and Sexual Misconduct in Colonial New England
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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068 Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
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Feb 09, 2016 |
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067 An Environmental History of Early California & Hawaii
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Feb 02, 2016 |
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066 How Historians Find Their Research Topics (Doing History)
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Bonus: Why Historians Study History (Doing History)
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Jan 22, 2016 |
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065 Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Network
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Jan 19, 2016 |
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064 Native American Slavery in New France
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Jan 12, 2016 |
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063 Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War
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Jan 05, 2016 |
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062 The Bill of Rights
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Dec 29, 2015 |
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061 George Washington in Retirement
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Dec 22, 2015 |
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060 Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
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Dec 15, 2015 |
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059 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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058 Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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057 War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
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Nov 24, 2015 |
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056 The Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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055 John Jay: Forgotten Founder
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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054 American Exceptionalism: The History of an Idea
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Nov 03, 2015 |
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053 The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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052 Diplomacy in Black and White: Early United States-Haitian Relations
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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051 Frontier Seaport: A History of Early Detroit
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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050 Betsy Ross and the Making of America
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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049 How the English Became American
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Sep 29, 2015 |
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048 Dangerous Guests; Enemy Captives During the War for Independence
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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047 Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic
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Sep 15, 2015 |
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046 Whirlwind: The American Revolution & the War That Won It
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Sep 08, 2015 |
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045 Joseph Smith and the Founding of Mormonism
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Sep 01, 2015 |
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044 The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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043 Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early Republic
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Aug 18, 2015 |
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Bonus: The Boston Stamp Act Riots
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Aug 14, 2015 |
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042 A History of the Republican Party
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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041 Canada and the American Revolution
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Aug 04, 2015 |
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040 For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington & the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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039 The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding
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Jul 21, 2015 |
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038 Magna Carta & Its Gifts to North America
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Jul 14, 2015 |
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037 Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
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Jul 07, 2015 |
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036 Competing Visions of Empire
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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Bonus: Lafayette & the Hermione
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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035 Historic Hudson Valley and Washington Irving
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Jun 23, 2015 |
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034 Andrew Jackson, Southerner
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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033 George Washington and His Library
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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032 One Colonial Woman's World
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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031 Benjamin Franklin and the Papers of Benjamin Franklin Editorial Project
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May 26, 2015 |
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030 Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography
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May 19, 2015 |
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029 The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
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May 12, 2015 |
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Bonus: We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence
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May 08, 2015 |
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028 Building the Erie Canal
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May 05, 2015 |
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027 A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
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Apr 28, 2015 |
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026 Washington's Revolution
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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025 Inventing George Whitefield
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Apr 14, 2015 |
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Bonus: Longfellow's Wayside Inn
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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024 18th-Century Fashion and Material Culture
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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023 Early American History with the JuntoCast
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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022 Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache: Benjamin Franklin's Women
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Mar 24, 2015 |
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021 Smuggling in Colonial America & Living History
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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020 Four Steeples Over the City Streets
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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019 The Colonial Boston Marketplace
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Mar 03, 2015 |
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018 Our Declaration
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Feb 24, 2015 |
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017 When the United States Spoke French
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Feb 17, 2015 |
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016 The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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Feb 10, 2015 |
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015 Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
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Feb 03, 2015 |
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014 West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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013 Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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012 True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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011 The Woodlands Historic Site of Philadelphia
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Jan 06, 2015 |
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010 British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution
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Dec 30, 2014 |
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009 Delicious December
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Dec 16, 2014 |
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008 Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
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Dec 02, 2014 |
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007 John Adams & The Adams Papers Editorial Project
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Nov 18, 2014 |
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006 At the Point of a Cutlass
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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005 Revolutionary Medicine
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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004 Sex and the Founding Fathers
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Sep 30, 2014 |
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003 Future of the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Sep 28, 2014 |
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002 Exhibitions at the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Sep 28, 2014 |
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001 History of the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Sep 27, 2014 |
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000 Ben Franklin's World with Liz Covart
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Sep 27, 2014 |