When people are asked to comment on the most famous figures of the American Revolution, the list is almost entirely men, with a few notable exceptions. Join us this week as we talk about the well-known women who participated and often literally fought during the American Revolution as well as some lesser-known women whose real stories are more fantastic than the myths surrounding Molly Pitcher and Betsy Ross. It's all on this week's episode!
This week we continue the discussion we started last time about utopian experiments and cults by covering two of the most fascinating and disturbing...
Join us this week as we discuss how prevalent alcohol consumption was in the British Colonial period and the Early Republic. Hint: it was...
In this week's episode we look back on the events of September 11, 2001, and ask how we grapple with memory and recounting historical...