History: Beyond the Textbook

4.7: Dr. Rush, the Free African Society, and Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

4.6: His Own Man: Toussaint Louverture, Indispensable Leader of the Haitian Revolution

4.5: Kamehameha The Great and the Unification of the Hawai'ian Islands

4.4: Little Turtle, the “Mad” General, and the Battle of Fallen Timbers

4.3: John Trumbull and James Madison: The Artist and Antagonist of Jay’s Treaty

4.2: Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution

4.1: Alexander Hamilton: The First Bank of the United States and the Whiskey Rebellion

3.12: Benjamin Banneker: Unsung Renaissance Man of America’s Crucial Years

3.11: Sally and James Hemings, and Shifting Dymanics of American Slavery

3.10: Charles Willson Peale and William Hill Brown: the Curator and the Novelist of America’s Crucial Years

3.9: Mercy Otis Warren and Patrick Henry: Anti-Federalist Antagonists of Constitutional Ratification

3.8: Roger Sherman and George Mason: Self-Educated Sages of the Constitutional Convention

3.7: The Farmer and the Fighter: Daniel Shays, Benjamin Lincoln, and the Importance of Shays' Rebellion

3.6: Contrasting Tales of Settlement: Blue Jacket and Rufus Putnam in the Northwest Territory

3.5: Alexander McGillivray and the U.S.-Creek Treaty of 1790

3.4: Franciscan Father-President: Fray Junipero Serra and Alta California

3.3: John Jay, and the failure of American Foreign Policy

3.2: The First Financier: Robert Morris and the Bank of North America

3.1: John Dickinson, Architect of the Articles of Confederation

2.12: King George III, Enlightened Monarch of the American Revolution

2.11: The Officer and the Commoner: Lord Cornwallis and Joseph Plumb Martin at the Battle of Yorktown

2.10: Banastre Tarleton and England's "Southern Strategy"

2.9: Martha Washington, the Oneidas, and the Winter at Valley Forge

2.8: Dueling Bens: Arnold, Franklin, and the Turning Point at Saratoga

2.7: Joseph Brant: Mohawk Loyalist of New York's Frontier

2.6: A Most Radical Writer: Thomas Paine, and the stunning victory at Trenton

2.5: Revolutionary Power Couple: John and Abigail Adams and the Declaration of Independence

2.4: Patriot Physician: Dr. Joseph Warren and the Battle of Bunker Hill

2.3: Poet of the Revolution: Phillis Wheatly and American Freedom

2.2: The Guiding Hand: Samuel Adams and the Boston Tea Party

2.1: The Prominent Pre-Revolution Loyalist: Thomas Hutchinson and the Stamp Act

1.12: Pontiac and the war against British Imperialism

1.11: George Washington, and the start of the French and Indian War

1.10: Alice, Ayuba, and Louis: Experiences of American Slavery

1.9: Po'Pay: Architect of the Great Southwest Rebellion

1.8: Mary Rowlandson, Chronicler of King Philip's War

1.7: Chief Canaqueese, Fighter and Orator of the Haudenosaunee

1.6: Uncas, Mohegan of the Connecticut River Valley

1.5: Anne Hutchinson, Rhode Island Rebel

1.4: Stephen Hopkins, Peacemaker of Plymouth

1.3: Jean Nicolet, the Negotiator of New France

1.2: Opechancanough, Jamestown's "Pamunkey Prince"

Episode 1.1: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, the Father of Florida