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Follow the history of voting in the United States all the way from the earliest colonial days to the present.
The Quaker faction in Pennsylvania fights a rearguard effort to hold on to political power despite their dwindling population, at one point...
The Quakers continue their struggle for self-rule against William Penn, now aging and ailing. Also, a promising young man by the name of Fra...
We return to Pennsylvania in the late 1600s. William Penn may not be happy with being stuck in England, but his colonists are very much enjo...
As New York rapidly approaches the Revolutionary period, political life becomes a confusing whirlwind of populist factionalism.
During the early 1700s, the colony of New York is divided by two successive bursts of factionalism, one over taxes and the other over a ridi...
After the chaos caused by Leisler's Rebellion, New York spends the 1690s and 1700s attempting to recover, only for that recovery to be repea...
In this episode, we take a general look at political life in New York during the later colonial period, from the development of caucuses to...
In this episode, we continue the story of the Massachusetts politician Thomas Hutchinson, and look at his involvement with two major instanc...
In this episode, we begin the first of a two part look at the life and career of Thomas Hutchinson, one of the last governors of colonial Ma...
Connecticut, the so-called Land of Steady Habits and the colony which was most stuck in the 1600s, faces its first real internal divisions,...
As Rhode Island develops and grows throughout the 18th century, it becomes divided by a struggle for dominance between the two largest citie...
In this episode, we look at how further wars with Quebec combined with the introduction of paper money to create big political divisions in...
In this episode, we take a break from the main narrative to have a closer look at how New England politics functioned in the early 1700s. Th...
In this episode, we follow New England as it picks itself up after the chaos of the Glorious Revolution and then promptly proceeds to stumbl...
In this episode we jump back to England for a bit, to see how the political system there is evolving in the wake of the Glorious Revolution...
This episode, we look at the last two colonial rebellions caused by the Glorious Revolution, one in Maryland against the Catholic proprietor...
This episode, we jump down to New York to see how the fall of the Dominion of New England played out there. Spoiler alert: much worse than i...
We follow the course of the Glorious Revolution - the overthrow of James II - in both England and New England, where an aftershock rebellion...
The unwillingness of Massachusetts to cooperate in any way with the English government leads to its annexation by the Dominion of New Englan...
We introduce the last of the Middle Colonies, Pennsylvania and Delaware, and talk more about the Quaker migration to America and its surpris...
We look at the early history of New Jersey, a colony beset by constant legal headaches, and finally give a proper introduction to the Quaker...
Dutch New Netherland is conquered by the English, who gradually remake the colony, now New York, in their own image, both politically and cu...
We look at the history and government of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which would become New York after its conquest by England.
We jump back in time to before European colonization to look at the prehistory and history of the Iroquois Confederacy, one of the most poli...
Next up: the founding of South Carolina, and its origins both in the high-minded ideals of the philosopher John Locke and in the brutal real...
We move down south for the creation of North Carolina, the first of the post-Restoration colonies, peopled by hardy outcasts from Virginia....
We conclude this first series of episodes on New England with a look at the broader sweep of history from the 1630s to the 1670s, including...
In this episode we take a closer look at the town governments of New England, in particular those famous and distinctive town meetings. How...
Now Massachusetts has been created, it's time to look at the other colonies in the region that fell into its orbit: Maine, New Hampshire, Co...
In this episode we look at the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as well as its early struggles over the proper role of popular part...
We jump back in time a bit to discuss the origins of New England, with a further look at Puritanism and the founding of Plymouth, the first...
Simmering tensions in Virginia flare into open revolt as the first era of colonization in the Chesapeake comes to a disastrous end.
A discussion of life in the Chesapeake in the mid-1600s, from local government to election practices to the origins of slavery and a new upp...
The history of the Chesapeake during Cromwell's Protectorate and the Restoration of the English monarchy. William Claiborne overthrows the g...
Virginia gets a new governor, William Berkeley, but as civil war comes to England, the Chesapeake scrambles to deal with dangerous upheavals...
A second colony is created in the Chesapeake, Maryland. But its status as a haven for Catholics leads to a hostile relationship with Virgini...
Virginia gains the first elected legislature in British America, the General Assembly. Plus, the history of the English Parliament.
We look at the historical context for the European colonization of North America, and then at the utterly catastrophic first decade of James...
The podcast is kicked off with a quick look at the founding of Jamestown and the first – sort of – election in what would become the United...