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340: Prisoners of War and the War of 1812

The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it was not a war that the United States can claim it clearly won. Nicholas Guyatt, a Professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge, joins us t…

195 Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine

In 1705 a group of colonists in Simsbury, Connecticut founded a copper mine, which the Connecticut General Assembly purchased and turned into a prison in 1773. How did an old copper mine function as a prison? Morgan Bengel, a Museum Assistant at the Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine, a Connect…

080 Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America

American prisons are overcrowded. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and nearly 2.5 million Americans are serving prison sentences. Nearly all politicians agree that we need to reform the American prison system, but they disagree on how to do it. Can gaining histori…

Female Husbands

The term "female husband" comes from the mid 17th century, referring to a marriage between two biological females, but one member of the relationship presents as male. In this episode, Madigan shares the stories of several relationships, spanning from 1650-the early 1900s, from England to the Unit…

359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America

“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white. What we see instead is that people are colorful because they aren’t just one thing and they don’t think and act in one way. Human ide…

340: Prisoners of War and the War of 1812

The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it was not a war that the United States can claim it clearly won. Nicholas Guyatt, a Professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge, joins us t…

195 Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine

In 1705 a group of colonists in Simsbury, Connecticut founded a copper mine, which the Connecticut General Assembly purchased and turned into a prison in 1773. How did an old copper mine function as a prison? Morgan Bengel, a Museum Assistant at the Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine, a Connect…

080 Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America

American prisons are overcrowded. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world and nearly 2.5 million Americans are serving prison sentences. Nearly all politicians agree that we need to reform the American prison system, but they disagree on how to do it. Can gaining histori…

Who Owns History?

Our opening segment is from “Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia,” a short video featuring cartoonist Tillie Walden explaining the experience of creating a graphic novel from the Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant archive at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebur…

453 Everyday LGBTQ+ Experiences in the American Revolution

All year, we’ve explored the American Revolution from many vantage points, from its politics and battles to the experiences of women, enslaved and free people of color, Native Americans, and Loyalists. In this episode, we’re going to take an LBGTQ+ lens to the Revolution. Three historians, Rachel H…