Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence, the Revolution was a movement and protest for more local control...
There are a lot of books about Benjamin Franklin. They tell us about his youth and accomplishments in business, politics, and diplomacy...
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of African and African American music to the United States’ musical traditions. Steven Lewis, a...
How did everyday Americans in the early United States use and enjoy music? How did they create and circulate new songs and musical lyrics...
Our study of music in Early America continues with this third episode in our five-episode series. Our last two episodes (Episode 343 and...
The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it...
Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we...
On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the...
What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’...
What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising? Over the course of the early republic, we see a few violent slave uprisings in the...