Episode 39 - The Long Death of Quaker Rule
The Quaker faction in Pennsylvania fights a rearguard effort to hold on to political power despite their dwindling population, at one point...
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Episode 38 - The Long Death of William Penn
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...
Episode 37 - Man in the Middle
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...
Episode 36 - What About Livingston?
As New York rapidly approaches the Revolutionary period, political life becomes a confusing whirlwind of populist factionalism.
Episode 35 - Fight, Fight, Fight!
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...
Episode 34 - The Anti-Leislerians
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...
Episode 33 - Empire State of Play
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...
Episode 32 - Riot!
In this episode, we continue the story of the Massachusetts politician Thomas Hutchinson, and look at his involvement with two major instanc...
Episode 31 - Thomas Hutchinson
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...
Episode 30 - A City Upon a Hill in the Hands of an Angry God
Connecticut, the so-called Land of Steady Habits and the colony which was most stuck in the 1600s, faces its first real internal divisions,...
Episode 29 - The Ward-Hopkins Controversy
As Rhode Island develops and grows throughout the 18th century, it becomes divided by a struggle for dominance between the two largest citie...
Episode 28 - Take My Debts Away
In this episode, we look at how further wars with Quebec combined with the introduction of paper money to create big political divisions in...
Episode 27 - Black Kings
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...
Episode 26 - The Wars of William and Anne
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...
Episode 25 - The Last of the Stuarts
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...
Episode 24 - Yet More Contemporaneous Rebellions
This episode, we look at the last two colonial rebellions caused by the Glorious Revolution, one in Maryland against the Catholic proprietor...
Episode 23 - Leisler's Rebellion
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...
Episode 22 - The Glorious Revolution
We follow the course of the Glorious Revolution - the overthrow of James II - in both England and New England, where an aftershock rebellion...
Episode 21 - The Dominion of New England
The unwillingness of Massachusetts to cooperate in any way with the English government leads to its annexation by the Dominion of New Englan...
Episode 20 - The Founding of Pennsylvania (And Delaware Too)
We introduce the last of the Middle Colonies, Pennsylvania and Delaware, and talk more about the Quaker migration to America and its surpris...
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