Videos

Author James Fichter talked about the role and politics of tea leading up to the American Revolution. Revolutionary Spaces in Boston hosted this program.

Prairie View A&M history professor Ronald Goodwin discussed the early Republic and how Americans tried to define equality and interpret the Constitution in the first decades of the United St…

The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., hosted a discussion commemorating the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s 1776 Declaration of Independence. This conversation was d…

Historian James Swanson recounted a Colonial-era massacre of American settlers living in Deerfield, Massachusetts, by hundreds of Native Americans and their French allies. Survivors of the 1…

National Constitution Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen sat down with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for a discussion on his book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue I…

Matthew Ifill talked about Congress Hall, located next to Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. The U.S. Congress met in the building from 1790 to 1800 and Presidents George Washington and John …

Professors Patrick Deneen and Vincent Phillip Muñoz of the University of Notre Dame discussed competing understandings of the American founding and how divided opinions on liberty continue t…

Author Cynthia Kierner discussed the life of Jane Spurgin during the Revolutionary War, including how her support for Continental forces divided her family, resulting in a public struggle fo…

Washington Examiner political analyst Michael Barone discussed how the geographical orientation and partialities of six Founding Fathers influenced the creation and development of the United…

Historians discussed the founders of the United States. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Virginia.

Author Jordan Taylor discussed how foreign news affected American politics in colonial America, plaguing the Revolution with misunderstandings. The American Revolution Institute in Washingto…

Yale University professor Ned Blackhawk, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, talked about the role of native people across five centuries of American history - from Spanish colonial expl…

Ithaca College professor Michael Trotti discussed the escalating tensions between colonists and the British government before the American Revolution. Ithaca College is located in New York.

Washington Examiner senior political analyst Michael Barone talked about his book, Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders. This progra…

In part four of Books that Shaped America, historian, author, and Howard University professor Edna Greene Medford explored the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the first autobiog…

In part three of Books That Shaped America, Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs explored the Journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, which were published in 1814 and recorded the 1804-1806 exped…

In part one of Books That Shaped America, University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell explored Common Sense, a 1776 pamphlet authored by Thomas Paine that urged the American coloni…

In 1619, 35 English settlers arrived in Berkeley, Virginia, upriver from Jamestown. We talked to Graham Woodlief, descendant of the group’s leader, Captain John Woodlief, about how these col…

Author Peter Cozzens talked about the 1813 Creek War, Andrew Jackson’s role in this conflict and the subsequent removal of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears. The Army and Navy Club in W…

Martin DiCaro, host of the Washington Times' “History As It Happens” podcast, talked to historian David Silverman about challenges educators face when teaching about colonialism and the firs…