All Episodes

Why Did Americans Remain Loyal to King George? Revolutionary Politics in New York City

Revolution 250: America's Independence Story at The National Archives

Creating the Continental Army: Civil-Military Relations in the 1700s

Johann Ewald's American War Diaries: A Hessian's Memoir of the War for Independence

Military Strategies from Lexington and Concord to the Declaration of Independence

Colonial Infrastructure and the Declaration of Independence

The Netherlands and the Declaration of Independence

France and the Declaration of Independence

Abigail Adams and the Declaration of Independence

"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?": Black America and the Declaration of Independence

Privateering, Boycotts, and Slavery in the Declaration of Independence

Impressment and the Declaration of Independence

Why Did Colonial Americans Oppose Standing Armies in Their Cities?

"Enemies in War, in Peace Friends": Declaring the First American Civil War

"We Pledge Our Fortunes": Money and the Declaration of Independence

Wales, Welsh Identity, Richard Price, and the Declaration of Independence

Ireland and the Declaration of Independence

Creating "THE PEOPLE": Whig Legal Concepts plus Lessons from Ireland and Spanish America

African-Americans in Spanish Florida and the Declaration of Independence

Canada's Rejection of Independence, Part 2: The Invasion (or Attempted Liberation) of Canada

Canada's Rejection of Independence, Part 1: The First Two Letters to the Oppressed Inhabitants of Canada

Haiti and the Origins of American Diplomacy in the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence

Hessian Mercenaries and German Reactions to the Declaration of Independence

Chicagoland in 1776

Jewish Life in the Colonies

Daughters of Liberty: Women and the Declaration of Independence

The Quartering Act and Homosexuality in the Colonies

Religion in the Declaration of Independence

The Importance of Free Trade and Immigration in the Declaration

Native Americans and The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson and the Composition of the Declaration

The Seven Years' War and More: Key Events before the Declaration of Independence

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