A History of the United States
A History of the United States. A podcast charting the history of the United States of America from the foundation of Jamestown to the end of the cold war, covering political, military, economic, social and cultural history.
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 204
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 77 - The Yellow Umbrella
This week we head over to England. We need to understand what has been happening there, and just how the Glorious Revolution came about. We start this by covering the restoration, the foundation of t…
00:16:59 |
Tue 27 Jun 2017
Episode 76 - Can We Get Back to Politics? Please?
This week we return to the main narrative. We look at what happened in Virginia after Bacon's rebellion, the tobacco markets, and found Williamsburg.
00:17:17 |
Mon 12 Jun 2017
Episode 75 - Native Americans 15: The Rockies and California
This week we finish our Native American series by looking at the mountains, and finally California.
00:20:27 |
Mon 29 May 2017
Episode 74 - Native Americans 14: The Plains
This week we look at the centre of the United States, the Great Plains.
00:17:46 |
Mon 15 May 2017
Episode 73 - Native Americans 13: Southeast
This week we move down the Atlantic seaboard to look at the Creeks, Cherokees, and other tribes of the southeast.
00:13:29 |
Thu 04 May 2017
Episode 72 - Native Americans 12: Northeast Woodlands Part 3
This week we continue looking at the Northeast, with particular focus given to the Iroquois.
00:13:32 |
Tue 18 Apr 2017
Episode 71 - Native Americans 11: Northeast Woodlands Part 2
This week we continue looking at the Northeast. This includes an overview of Hopewellian culture and giant beavers.
00:16:17 |
Mon 03 Apr 2017
Episode 70 - Native Americans 10: Northeast Woodlands
This week we look to the East. We go through all the tribes of the East, and look a bit at how their culture differed to that of other regions.
00:15:43 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Episode 69 - Native Americans 9: Pacific Northwest
This week we turn to the Pacific Northwest. We examine burning down houses and totem poles.
00:14:37 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
Episode 68 - Native Americans 8: Subarctic
This week we turn southwards to the Subarctic. We basically cover Canada up to the arrival of the Europeans.
00:15:50 |
Sun 19 Feb 2017
Episode 67 - Native Americans 7: Frozen Planet
This week we turn to the Arctic! We look at Eskimos, Aleuts, and Alaska. In addition, we talk about dad jokes, David Attenborough, Planet Earth II, Hamilton, and why my best friend is amazing.
00:16:35 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
Episode 66 - Native Americans 6: The Southwest 2
This week we continue looking at the Southwest, and take it up to European contact.
00:13:40 |
Mon 23 Jan 2017
Episode 65 - Native Americans 5: The Southwest
This week we turn towards the southwest. I try and pronounce some tribe names, and we explore how maize entered the region.
00:17:35 |
Mon 09 Jan 2017
Episode 64 - Native Americans 4: After the Ice Age
This week we look at life in North America in the aftermath of the Ice Age, looking at the three major zones of Archaic Culture, the East, the Plains, and the West.
00:18:14 |
Tue 27 Dec 2016
Episode 63 - Native Americans 3: Ice Age
This week we resume the main narrative and by looking at the first Americans, and how they lived during the close of the last Ice Age.
00:16:36 |
Sun 11 Dec 2016
Episode 62 - Native Americans 2: Myths, Legends, and Folktales
This week we begin the serious study of the Native American peoples. We talk about how we are going to cover them, and about how to fairly assign weight between Euroamerican history and native tradit…
00:19:45 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Episode 61 - Native Americans 1: Mother
This week we begin season 2. We start our coverage of Native Americans by going back 70,000 years to Africa to look at the human migration from Africa to North America, before looking at the geograph…
00:18:32 |
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Episode 60 - There's Something About Maryland
This week we conclude season one of the podcast by looking at Maryland, the Catholic colony.
00:12:45 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Episode 59 - Establishing the Proprietary
This week we look at how the colony of Carolina began to take shape, and how it seemed destined to split into two.
00:15:47 |
Mon 31 Oct 2016
Episode 58 - Carolina in my Mind
This week we look at early attempts to settle Carolina with French Huguenots, which naturally brings us to a discussion of the West Wing and religious toleration in the 1780s.
00:16:19 |
Mon 17 Oct 2016
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