Historians use archives to create the histories we love to read, watch, and listen to. So we’re going into one archive to investigate how...
In the 21st century, we are all creators and users of content. We take original photos with our smartphones, generate blog posts, digital...
Have you ever wondered how the capital of the United States came to be situated at Washington, D.C.? The banks of the Potomac River...
How do you uncover the life of an enslaved person who left no paper trail? What can the everyday life of an enslaved person tell us about...
What do George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They all grew-up in blended or stepfamilies. Lisa Wilson...
We tend to view gay marriage as a cultural and legal development of the 21st century. But did you know that some early Americans lived...
Was the early United States a “Christian nation?” Did most of its citizenry accept God and the Bible as the moral authority that bound them...
As part of the Omohundro Institute's Doing History series on biography, Episode 212 offers us a new conversation with Erica Dunbar, the...
La Presidente? The Presidentess? The First Lady of the Land? The Second Article of the United States Constitution defines the Executive...
Aaron Burr: Revolutionary War hero, talented lawyer, Vice President, and Intriguer of treason? Between 1805 and 1807, Aaron Burr supposedly...