Best Americanrevolution Podcasts (2023)

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America at War

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153 The West: The Nez Perce War, Pt. V. 23:16

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We continue our narrative on the Nez Perce War, concentrating on what happened at Big Hole Montana. After successfully eluding the army in Montana, they camped in the Big Hole valley, thinking they were safe. They were not. Colonel John Gibbon was in pursuit. In what could best described as a massacre in the making, Gibbon attacked the Nez Perce en…

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Ben Franklin's World

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366 Michael Taylor, James Wilson & the U.S. Constitution 53:39

9d ago53:39

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On September 17, 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention concluded their work by signing the final draft of their new proposed government. The document they signed was the United States Constitution, which is why the United States marks Constitution Day each year on September 17. In honor of Constitution Day, we explore the life of a Fou…

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America at War

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152 The West: The Nez Perce War, Pt. IV 22:17

23d ago22:17

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We continue the Nez Perce War with this episode. After the various missteps and mistakes by General Howard, the Army struck the Nez Perce again at the Battle of the Clearwater. While it could be seen as a victory, the Nez Perce escaped, leaving their household goods behind. A council among the Nez Perce leaders resulted in a reluctant decision to h…

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Ben Franklin's World

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365 Road Trip 2023: Early Settlement at Île Ste. Jean 1:03:50

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2020 commemorated the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of North America, the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, and Prince Edward Island were highly contested regions. In fact, the way France and Great Britain fought for presence and control of this region places …

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Ben Franklin's World

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364 Road Trip 2023: La Pointe-Krebs House & Museum 54:51

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The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to some historians, the Gulf Coast region may have been the most diverse region in early North America. Matthew Powell, a historian of slavery and southern history and the Executive Director of the La P…

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Ben Franklin's World

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363 Road Trip 2023: Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park 1:00:07

2M ago1:00:07

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About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviéve reveals much about what it was like to establish a colony in the heartland of North America and what it was like for colonists to live so far removed from seats of imperial power. Claire …

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America at War

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151 The West: Nez Perce War of 1877 Pt. III 26:35

2M ago26:35

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We are continuing our story of the Nez Perce War of 1877. In this episode, we will concentrate on the start of hostilities. With emotions running high, Joseph and his band left the Wallowa's of northeast Oregon for the now reduced Nez Perce reservation. When they gathered at a place called Tolo Lake, emotions got the better of three young men who m…

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Ben Franklin's World

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362: David W. Penney, Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations 1:01:04

2M ago1:01:04

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations. This exhibit allows you to see treaties the United States has made with American Indian nations and learn more about those treaties and their outcomes. David W. Penney is the Associate Direct…

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America at War

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150 The West: Nez Perce War of 1877 Pt. II 26:41

2M ago26:41

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With this episode, we continue the story of the Nez Perce War of 1877. With the onset of the colonization of the Pacific Northwest, tensions gradually rose between the Tribes of the Northwest and these newcomers. Once the border between British Canada and the United States was agreed to, the U.S. quickly organized the Pacific Northwest. Isaac Steve…

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Ben Franklin's World

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361 The Fourth of July in 2026 1:19:38

3M ago1:19:38

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July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we will be marking the 250th anniversary of these events. How are historians thinking about the American Revolution for 2026? What are they discussing when it comes to the 250th anniversary of the United States’ foun…

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America at War

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149 The West: The Nez Perce War of 1877, Pt. I 21:26

3M ago21:26

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As we move to the Pacific Northwest from California, it is time to consider the Nez Perce War of 1877. The conflict captured the public's imagination, much like the Modoc War, of a Tribe wanting to establish a home, but not allowed. To understand the full measure of the Nez Perce War, this episode and the next will focus on the roots of the Nez Per…

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Ben Franklin's World

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360 Kyera Singleton, Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts 1:06:29

3M ago1:06:29

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Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, informing Texans that all slaves are free. Juneteenth may fe…

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America at War

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148 State of the Podcast 2023 7:25

3M ago7:25

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Once a year I post a short episode on the state of the podcast. It is an overview of where we are and where we are going. No someone who enjoys history? Tell them about this podcast! We could use some more listeners. Have a question, comment, concern, or compliment? Contact us at americawarpodcast@gmail.com. You can also leave comments and your que…

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Ben Franklin's World

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359 Jen Manion, Trans-ing Gender in Early America 53:42

4M ago53:42

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“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white. What we see instead is that people are colorful because they aren’t just one thing and they don’t think and act in one way. Human identities are one area where we find a lot of colorful…

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America at War

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147 The West: The Modoc War Part III 23:41

4M ago23:41

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In this episode we will be concluding our series on the Modoc War of 1872-73. With the Modoc on the run, they retreated to a stronghold on the toe of a lava field, providing a bastion to protect their families from the U.S. Army. It took time to gather soldiers and supplies and did not attack until January 1873. It failed. In an attempt to break th…

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Ben Franklin's World

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358 Charles Tingley, St. Augustine & Early Florida 1:04:01

4M ago1:04:01

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For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the administrative units it created to govern this vast territory: New Spain and La Florida. Charles Tingley is a Senior Research Librarian at the St. Augustine Historical Society in St. Augustine, Florida, and an …

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America at War

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146 The West: The Modoc War Part II 24:23

4M ago24:23

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This is part two of a three episode arc on the Modoc War of 1872-73. With an increasing number of Euro-Americans settlers coming into the Klamath Basin astride the Oregon/California border after the end of the Civil War, tensions rose. Modoc's feared a loss of access to their homeland and it became an issue with both parties. It put increasing pres…

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Ben Franklin's World

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357 Eric Jay Dolin, Privateering in the American Revolution 58:37

5M ago58:37

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How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with the British military during the American War for Independence? Eric Jay Dolin joins us to answer part of that question by looking at the creation of the United States’ privateer fleet. Dolin is the author of fifteen books about the maritime history of e…

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Ben Franklin's World

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356 Paul Peucker, The Moravian Church in North America 54:49

5M ago54:49

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In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted “the Great Law,” a humanitarian code that guaranteed the people of Pennsylvania liberty of conscience. “The Great Law” created an environment that not only welcomed William Penn’s fellow Quakers to Pennsylvania but also created space for …

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America at War

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145 The West: The Modoc War Part I 24:45

5M ago24:45

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We are moving into our season on the wars of the western frontier. We are starting on the Pacific coast with the Modoc War of 1872-73, California's only large post Civil War conflict with a native people. This episode sets up the events of the war. The Modoc homeland, in the far reaches of Northern California in the Klamath Basin, was under pressur…

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Ben Franklin's World

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355 Misha Ewen, The Virginia Venture 54:25

5M ago54:25

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On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately-funded, joint-stock company established the first, permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. What work did the Virginia Company have to do to establish this colony? How …

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Ben Franklin's World

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354 John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale 1:07:24

6M ago1:07:24

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History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and see how far we’ve come as people and societies. Of course, history also has the power to show us how little has changed over time. John Wood Sweet, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of the book, The Sewi…

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Ben Franklin's World

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353 Brooke Bauer, Women and the Making of Catawba Identity 55:50

6M ago55:50

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How did Indigenous people adapt to and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population loss between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries? How did past generations of Indigenous women ensure their culture would live on from one generation to the next so their people would endure? Brooke Bauer, an assistant professor …

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America at War

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144 The West: Introduction 30:44

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We are now moving beyond the Civil War and examining the armies role in the western United States. In the decades after the Civil War came to an end, the regular army was sent west. After 1865, with the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act, settlement of the west accelerated. Unfortunately, as the western states began t…

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Ben Franklin's World

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352 Matthew Skic, James Forten and the Making of the United States 47:45

7M ago47:45

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People of African descent have made great contributions to the United States and its history. Think about all of the food, music, dance, medicine, farming and religious practices that people of African descent have contributed to American culture. Think about the sacrifices they’ve made to create and protect the United States as an independent nati…

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Ben Franklin's World

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351 Nicole Maskiell, Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland 51:13

7M ago51:13

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African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and the early United States, did not represent one monolithic practice of slavery. Practices of slavery varied by region, labor systems, legal codes, and empire. Slavery also wasn’t just about enslavers enslaving people for their labor. Enslavers used ensla…

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America at War

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143 The Civil War: Reconstruction 22:31

7M ago22:31

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The period from the end of the Civil War until 1877 was known as Reconstruction. As the name suggests, it was the country's attempt to reconstruct and, perhaps, transform the South. The hope was to not only stitch the country back together again, but provide the freedmen a step up, to integrate the formerly enslaved population back into society. Te…

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Ben Franklin's World

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350 Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams 1:03:20

8M ago1:03:20

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Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence, the Revolution was a movement and protest for more local control of government. So how did the American Revolution get started? Who worked to transform a series of protests into a revolution? This is a BIG question with no one answer. But one American who worked to transform …

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America at War

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142 The Civil War: The War Comes to An End 34:39

8M ago34:39

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We have reached the penultimate episode of our series on the Civil War. We briefly touch on the surrender of the Confederate field armies but devote most of our time to looking at issues related to the winners and loosers of the war. It is fair to say that Lincoln won the war, but lost the peace. We don't explore all of the issues that led to the d…

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Ben Franklin's World

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349 Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Women Behind Benjamin Franklin 1:04:53

8M ago1:04:53

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There are a lot of books about Benjamin Franklin. They tell us about his youth and accomplishments in business, politics, and diplomacy. They tell us about his serious interest in electricity and science, and about his philanthropic work. But only a handful of these books tell us about Benjamin Franklin as a man. What did Benjamin Franklin think ab…

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Ben Franklin's World

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348 Ricardo Herrera, Valley Forge 1:05:46

9M ago1:05:46

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On December 19, 1777, George Washington marched his Continental Army into its winter encampment at Valley Forge. In school we learned this was a hard, cold winter that saw the soldiers so ill-supplied they chewed on the leather of their shoes. But is this what really happened at Valley Forge? Were soldiers idle, wallowing in their misery? Ricardo H…

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