On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
Who gets to be a founding father? “Founding Father” status goes to men who helped found the United States. That means the 56 men who signed...
What was it like to keep a pet in Early America? How did early Americans acquire pets? What kinds of animals did early Americans keep as...
What do we know about how and why England came to establish its first permanent colony at Jamestown? And what do we know about the English...
How did Americans learn to establish philanthropic institutions? Victoria Johnson, an Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at...
What do you know about the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution? Caitlin Galante-DeAngelis Hopkins, a Lecturer in the...
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts to spread the alarm that the Regulars were marching. Revere made several...
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 was everyday life like for average men and women in early America? Listeners ask this question more than any other question and today...
What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the...