A History of the United States

Episode 204 - Lewis and Clark Part 4 05.07.2026 12:33 ↓

This week we continue the Lewis and Clark expedition, as the party moves into the Rockies.

Episode 203 - Lewis and Clark Part 3 17.05.2026 16:33 ↓

This week we continue the Lewis and Clark expedition! They continue moving north, and have a confrontation with the Lakota Sioux.

Episode 202 - Lewis and Clark Part 2 26.04.2026 13:11 ↓

This week we get the Lewis and Clark expedition underway! They travel from the Mississippi to the territory of the Lakota.

Episode 201 - Lewis and Clark Part 1 23.03.2026 15:29 ↓

This week we explore why the Lewis and Clark Expedition took place.

Episode 200 - The Louisiana Purchase 15.02.2026 12:48 ↓

This week the French disaster in Haiti leads to a massive opportunity for Jefferson as we cover the Louisiana Purchase.

Episode 199 - Black Spartacus 18.01.2026 14:48 ↓

This week we restart the narrative. Continuing our discussion about slavery from last time, we move to the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture.

Episode 198 - Not Yet the Dawn 18.12.2025 17:39 ↓

This week we have our final episode in the narrative pause. We discuss slavery. We discuss anti-slavery. And we discuss why anti-slavery didn't work.

Episode 197 - All Men Are Created Equal 26.10.2025 11:08 ↓

This week we look at women's rights in the early republic, focusing in on the reaction to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792.

Episode 196 - Theologycast 4 12.10.2025 15:19 ↓

This week we look at religion in the early republic, exploring the Methodists and Baptists in particular.

Episode 195 - Education, Education, Education 21.09.2025 10:59 ↓

This week we look at the spread of education in the early republic, along with the spread of the postal system.

Episode 194 - Let's Dissolve All the Corporations 31.08.2025 12:11 ↓

This week we explore how how John Marshall helped create the Private Corporation.

Episode 193 - Let's Impeach All the Judges 03.08.2025 15:55 ↓

This week we explore how Jefferson attempted to weaken the Supreme Court, and what Marshall did to strengthen it.

Episode 192 - Let's Kill All the Lawyers 20.07.2025 12:42 ↓

This week we explore the Judiciary. We look at the relationship Americans of the Early Republic had with Judges, taking the story up to the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court.

Episode 191 - How About This Weather? 22.06.2025 18:20 ↓

This week we explore climate science. We look at what impacts the climate, how it works, and how this was impacting our narrative.

Episode 190 - You looking at me? 26.05.2025 15:17 ↓

This week we explore violence in the early American Republic. We look at factors which may have contributed to rising violence, such as alcoholism, and how this manifested across the nation.

Episode 189 - Columbia and Banks 05.05.2025 14:51 ↓

This week we talk about two topics, the founding of Washington DC and the early history of American banking.

Episode 188 - The Revolution of 1800 13.04.2025 12:19 ↓

This week we open the Jefferson Administraion as he attempts to undo all the Federalists had done.

Episode 187 - The Election of 1800 23.02.2025 14:39 ↓

This week we cover the constitutional crisis that was the Election of 1800, as Federalists ask the question "Jefferson or Burr?".

Episode 186 - The Adams Army 09.02.2025 13:47 ↓

This week we catch up Hamilton as he navigates the Reynolds Affair and the New Army.

Episode 185 - Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) 19.01.2025 14:55 ↓

This week we cover the Alien and Sedition Acts as the Adams Administration wrestles with a culture war.

Episode 184 - The Adams Administration 15.12.2024 15:13 ↓

This week we cover the election of 1796 and the XYZ Affair.

Episode 183 - Washington's Farewell 24.11.2024 47:56 ↓

This week we let Washington close his administraion in his own words.

Episode 182 - Citizen Genet 27.10.2024 15:40 ↓

This week we cover the our last topic of the Washington administration, Citizen Genet and the issue of neutrality.

Episode 181 - Democratic-Republican Ideology 19.08.2024 14:58 ↓

This week we examine the Democratic-Republicans as they start to become a more powerful group, asking what was the ideology that held them together.

Episode 180 - Let's Get the Parties Started 21.07.2024 15:53 ↓

This week we examine the early 'Republican Interest' in its battles with the Federalist government, exploring how Hamilton and Jefferson argued while Washington tried to hold his administration together.