Best Americanrevolution Podcasts (2024)

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161 The West: Buffalo Soldiers 27:46

13h ago27:46

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In our last episode on the frontier army, it seems appropriate to highlight the African-Americans who served in the west - the Buffalo soldiers. Two infantry and cavalry regiments were set aside for African-American soldiers. They flocked to the colors to serve. Taking part in many of the campaigns in the west, they cemented their reputation. The o…

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385 Did George Washington Have Heirs? 1:04:19

1h ago1:04:19

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The United States Constitution of 1787 gave many Americans pause about the powers the new federal government could exercise and how the government's leadership would rest with one person, the president. The fact that George Washington would likely serve as the new nation’s first president calmed many Americans’ fears that the new nation was creatin…

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384 Making Maine: A Journey to Statehood 1:05:35

9d ago1:05:35

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Article IV, Section 3 of the United States Constitution establishes guidelines by which the United States Congress can admit new states to the American Union. It clearly states that “no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State…without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Co…

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383 Aquatic Culture in Early America 56:52

17d ago56:52

56:52

If you will recall from Episode 331, the Williamsburg Bray School is the oldest existing structure in the United States that we know was used to educate African and African American children. As the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation prepares the Bray School for you to visit and see, we’re having many conversations about the history of the school, it…

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160 The West: Combat 20:37

27d ago20:37

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This episode follows up with the previous. After focusing on what it was like to serve in the west after the Civil War, we close the circle with this episode where we focus on the campagin trail and combat. Rather than fighting standing armies as had occured in the Civil War, the 'wars' more often than not, these brushes with violence could be call…

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382 Hessians in the American Revolutionary War 54:05

29d ago54:05

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Within the Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States present twenty-seven grievances against King George III as they declare their reasons for why the thirteen British North American colonies sought their independence from Great Britain. Their twenty-fifth grievance declares that King George III “is at this time transporting la…

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381 Texas in the Spanish Empire 1:03:00

2M ago1:03:00

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The vast and varied landscapes of Texas loom large in our American imaginations. As does Texas culture with its BBQ, cowboys, and larger-than-life personality. But before Texas was a place that embraced ranching, space flight, and country music, Texas was a place with rich and vibrant Indigenous cultures and traditions and with Spanish and Mexican …

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159 The West: A Soldier's Life 28:02

1M ago28:02

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In this episode, we take a closer look at the life of officers and enlisted men on the frontier. We explore the motivations for joining and the challenges of serving. The post Civil War Army served in over 200 posts spread through the west. They had to endure tedium, hardships, and occassionally the terror of serving in a battle. This episode will …

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380 The Tory's Wife 1:05:00

2M ago1:05:00

1:05:00

The American Revolution was a movement that divided British Americans. Americans did not universally agree on the Revolution’s ideas about governance and independence. And the movement’s War for Independence was a bloody civil war that not only pitted brother against brother and fathers against sons; it also pitted wives against husbands. Cynthia A…

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379 Women Healers in Early America 1:00:47

3M ago1:00:47

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Women make up eight out of every ten healthcare workers in the United States. Yet they lag behind men when it comes to working in the roles of medical doctors and surgeons. Why has healthcare become a professional field dominated by women, and yet women represent a minority of physicians and doctors who serve at the top of the healthcare field? Sus…

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158 The West: Geronimo 20:55

2M ago20:55

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As we draw down the arc of episodes related to post-Civil War Indian Wars, in this episode we will concentrate on subduing Geronimo. Geronimo bedeviled the US Army as he left the reservation three separate times. For the last two campaigns, General George Crook successfully cornered the proud warrior and compelled him to return to the reservation. …

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378 Everyday Black Living in Early America 49:21

3M ago49:21

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When we study the history of Black Americans, especially in the early American period, we tend to focus on slavery and the slave trades. But focusing solely on slavery can hinder our ability to see that, like all early Americans, Black Americans were multi-dimensional people who led complicated lives and lived a full range of experiences that were …

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377 Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright 45:48

4M ago45:48

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2023 marked the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Phillis Wheatley's published book of poetry in the British American colonies. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who, as a teenager, became the first published African author of a book of poetry written in English. Ade Solanke, an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, has written …

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157 The West: The Navajo, The Apache, and the Border 23:41

3M ago23:41

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In the episode we move from the Lakota and Sioux to the border region. Long before the United States controlled what we know today as the Southwest, Spanish and then Mexican authorities had to contend with Navajo and Apache raids. Once the Americans established themselves, the pressures of colonization would trigger Army intervention, and basically…

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376 Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons 1:04:33

4M ago1:04:33

1:04:33

Colonial America was born in a world of religious alliances and rivalries. Missionary efforts in the colonial Americas allow us to see how some of these religious alliances and rivalries played out. Spain, and later France, sent Catholic priests and friars to North and South America, and the Caribbean, purportedly to save the souls of Indigenous Am…

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375 Misinformation Nation: Fake News in Early America 58:30

5M ago58:30

58:30

Over the past decade, we’ve heard a lot about “fake news” and “misinformation.” And as 2024 is an election year, it’s likely we’re going to hear even more about these terms. So what is the origin of misinformation in the American press? When did Americans decide that they needed to be concerned with figuring out whether the information they heard o…

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374 The American Revolutionary War in the West 53:22

5M ago53:22

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The American Revolution and its War for Independence comprised the United States’ founding movement. The War for Independence also served as the fifth major war for European empire in North America. The fourth war for European empire, the Seven Years’ War, reshaped and redefined Europe’s worldwide colonial landscape in Great Britain’s favor. The Am…

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Special Holiday Message - 2023 6:19

5M ago6:19

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I wanted to ask you all a question and wish you a happy and safe holiday season. If you would like to respond to the query, you can either respond through the podcast's facebook page or drop me a line through the podcasts email at americawarpodcast@gmail.com. Thank you for listening to this podcast for all of these years. I really appreciate the su…

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156 The West: The Great Sioux War 23:41

5M ago23:41

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The death of George Armstrong Custer and the destruction of the Seventh Cavalry is a touchstone for the Indian Wars. It is the one event that in many people's mind, is the touchstone for the post-Civil War conflicts with Native Armericans. We will focus on that in this episode of the podcast. The campaign to hem in the Sioux to their reservations w…

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373 The Gaspee Affair, 1772 54:52

5M ago54:52

54:52

The so-called “March to the American Revolution” comprised many more events than just the Stamp Act Riots, the Boston Massacre, and the Tea Crisis. One event we often overlook played an essential and direct role in the events needed to draw the thirteen rebellious British North American colonies into a union of coordinated response. That event was …

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372 A History of the Myaamia 1:09:30

6M ago1:09:30

1:09:30

Early America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and nations living in different areas of North America before the Spanish and other European empires arrived on the continent’s shores. Diane Hunter and John Bickers join us to investigate the history…

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155 The West: The Midwest and Rocky Mountain States, 1865-1870 21:55

6M ago21:55

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We are moving to the center of the country with this episode. Before the beginning of the Civil War through the decade of the 1870s, the Army was busy in the center of the country. This episode will serve as bridge between the end of the Civil War and the Sioux and Lakota Wars of the 1870s. As settlement stretched west, there were clashes between n…

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371 An Archive of Indigenous Slavery 50:54

7M ago50:54

50:54

Long before European arrival in the Americas, Indigenous people and nations practiced enslavement. Their version of enslavement looked different from the version Christopher Columbus and his fellow Europeans practiced, but Indigenous slavery also shared many similarities with the Euro-American practice of African Chattel Slavery. While there is no …

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370 The Ruin of All Witches 51:59

7M ago51:59

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Happy Halloween! In honor of the 31st of October and All Hallows Eve, we investigate a historical incident of witches and witchcraft in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651. Malcolm Gaskill, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and one of the leading experts in the history of witchcraft, joi…

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154 The West: The Nez Perce War, Part VI 27:53

7M ago27:53

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This is our last episode concerning the Nez Perce War of 1877. In the aftermath of Big Hole, the Nez Perce continued east, traveling through the newly established Yellowstone National Park. As it became clear that they were not welcome in Crow Country, the Nez Perce decided to head north to Canada and sanctuary. After exiting Yellowstone, the Nez P…

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369 Livestock and Animal Breeds in Early America 52:12

7M ago52:12

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Establishing colonies in North America took an astonishing amount of work. Colonists had to clear trees, eventually remove stumps from newly cleared fields, plant crops to eat and sell, weed and tend those crops, and then they had to harvest crops, and get the crops they intended to sell to the nearest market town, and that was just some of the wor…

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368 Legacies of the Brafferton Indian School 1:03:34

8M ago1:03:34

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The Brafferton Indian School has a long and complicated legacy. Chartered with the College of William & Mary in 1693, the Brafferton Indian School’s purpose was to educate young Indigenous boys in the ways of English religion, language, and culture. The Brafferton performed this work for more than 70 years, between the arrival of its first students…

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367 The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1 1:20:13

8M ago1:20:13

1:20:13

In 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England granted a royal charter for two institutions of higher education in the Colony of Virginia. The first institution was the College of William & Mary. The second institution was the Indian School at William & Mary, known from 1723 to the present as the Brafferton Indian School. The history of the…

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

8M ago23:16

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

9M ago53:39

53:39

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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161 The West: Buffalo Soldiers 27:46

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385 Did George Washington Have Heirs? 1:04:19

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384 Making Maine: A Journey to Statehood 1:05:35

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383 Aquatic Culture in Early America 56:52

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160 The West: Combat 20:37

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382 Hessians in the American Revolutionary War 54:05

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381 Texas in the Spanish Empire 1:03:00

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159 The West: A Soldier's Life 28:02

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380 The Tory's Wife 1:05:00

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379 Women Healers in Early America 1:00:47

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158 The West: Geronimo 20:55

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378 Everyday Black Living in Early America 49:21

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377 Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright 45:48

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157 The West: The Navajo, The Apache, and the Border 23:41

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376 Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons 1:04:33

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375 Misinformation Nation: Fake News in Early America 58:30

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374 The American Revolutionary War in the West 53:22

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Special Holiday Message - 2023 6:19

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156 The West: The Great Sioux War 23:41

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373 The Gaspee Affair, 1772 54:52

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372 A History of the Myaamia 1:09:30

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155 The West: The Midwest and Rocky Mountain States, 1865-1870 21:55

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371 An Archive of Indigenous Slavery 50:54

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370 The Ruin of All Witches 51:59

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154 The West: The Nez Perce War, Part VI 27:53

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369 Livestock and Animal Breeds in Early America 52:12

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368 Legacies of the Brafferton Indian School 1:03:34

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367 The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1 1:20:13

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

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

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