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A History of the United States. A podcast charting the history of the United States of America from the foundation of Jamestown to the end of the cold war, covering political, military, econ...
This week we get the Lewis and Clark expedition underway! They travel from the Mississippi to the territory of the Lakota.
This week we explore why the Lewis and Clark Expedition took place.
This week the French disaster in Haiti leads to a massive opportunity for Jefferson as we cover the Louisiana Purchase.
This week we restart the narrative. Continuing our discussion about slavery from last time, we move to the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint...
This week we have our final episode in the narrative pause. We discuss slavery. We discuss anti-slavery. And we discuss why anti-slavery did...
This week we look at women's rights in the early republic, focusing in on the reaction to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights...
This week we look at religion in the early republic, exploring the Methodists and Baptists in particular.
This week we look at the spread of education in the early republic, along with the spread of the postal system.
This week we explore how how John Marshall helped create the Private Corporation.
This week we explore how Jefferson attempted to weaken the Supreme Court, and what Marshall did to strengthen it.
This week we explore the Judiciary. We look at the relationship Americans of the Early Republic had with Judges, taking the story up to the...
This week we explore climate science. We look at what impacts the climate, how it works, and how this was impacting our narrative.
This week we explore violence in the early American Republic. We look at factors which may have contributed to rising violence, such as alco...
This week we talk about two topics, the founding of Washington DC and the early history of American banking.
This week we open the Jefferson Administraion as he attempts to undo all the Federalists had done.
This week we cover the constitutional crisis that was the Election of 1800, as Federalists ask the question "Jefferson or Burr?".
This week we catch up Hamilton as he navigates the Reynolds Affair and the New Army.
This week we cover the Alien and Sedition Acts as the Adams Administration wrestles with a culture war.
This week we cover the election of 1796 and the XYZ Affair.
This week we let Washington close his administraion in his own words.
This week we cover the our last topic of the Washington administration, Citizen Genet and the issue of neutrality.
This week we examine the Democratic-Republicans as they start to become a more powerful group, asking what was the ideology that held them t...
This week we examine the early 'Republican Interest' in its battles with the Federalist government, exploring how Hamilton and Jefferson arg...
This week we turn to the growing political fragmentation during the Washington Administration. We discuss how Madison's opinions changed ove...
This week we finish looking at the westward migration of the early 1790s, finishing off with the Northwest Indian War.
This week we continue to look at the westward migration, this time focusing on Federal interactions with Indians. We look at the Treaty of N...
This week we continue to look at the westward migration, this time focusing on the Federal Government's attempt to manage it. We then look a...
This week we cover the life of Daniel Boone, one of the early pioneers and folk heroes.
This week, the Whiskey Rebellion comes to a close.
This week, the rebels march on Pittsburgh and Washington issues a warning.
This week, we cover the outbreak of the Whiskey Rebellion in the summer of 1794.
This week, we watch tensions rise over 1793 and 1794, complicated by Yellow Fever.
This week, Hamilton looks to raise revenues through a Whiskey Tax, which swiftly starts to go wrong.
This week we turn our attention to the western frontier as we explore the origins of the whiskey rebellion.
This week we follow Hamilton's battle to get his four point financial plan approved.
Explainer why there have been no episodes lately.
This week we cover the creation of the initial federal departments, focusing in particular on the treasury and the idea of national debt.
This week we explore the creation of the Bill of Rights, discussing how and why they took the form they did.
This week we introduce Congress as the House and Senate get to work. We also look at Washington's attempts to establish the right tone for t...
This week we conclude a high-speed overview of the French Revolution.
This week we begin a high-speed overview of the French Revolution.
This week we look at the ratification process for the constitution as the Federalists and Antifederalists fought a war of words across the c...
The Constitution.
This week the Constitutional Convention wraps up as we cover the final debates - the power of Congress, the election of the President, trade...
This week the Constitutional Convention continues as the small states propose the New Jersey Plan, before eventually the Connecticut Comprom...
This week the Constitutional Convention begins with Madison proposing The Virginia Plan.
This week we begin discussions of the 1787 Constitutional Convention by introducing the Delegates.
Quick update on my writers block around the constitutional convention.
This week we catch up with Alexander Hamilton, introduce James Madison, and cover the beginnings of the Federalist movement up to the Annapo...
This week we look at how the unhappiness of the 1780s exploded in Massachusetts.