Conversations at the Washington Library

Conversations at the Washington Library is the premier podcast about George Washington and his Early American world.

https://www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 44m. Bisher sind 235 Folge(n) erschienen. Dies ist ein wöchentlich erscheinender Podcast.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 7 hours 23 minutes

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episode 222: 222. Winning a "Compleat Victory" at Saratoga with Dr. Kevin Weddle


The Battle of Saratoga in September and October of 1777 was a decisive turning point in the American War for Independence. The American victory over the British in northern New York put a stopper to London’s dreams of a swift end to the war, and convinced the French to openly declare their support for the colonial rebels. It was, in the words of one American participant, a "Compleat Victory...


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 March 25, 2022  47m
 
 

episode 221: 221. Reading the Political Poetry of Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin with Dr. Kait Tonti


Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin was an American poet who rhymed about some of the most important issues facing the early United States in the eighteenth century, including the British occupation of New York City during the American Revolution, the debate over the gradual abolition of slavery in the early days of the republic, and the legacy of George Washington...


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 March 9, 2022  55m
 
 

episode 220: 220. Educating Early Americans with Drs. Mark Boonshoft and Andrew O'Shaughnessy


In eighteenth-century America,  you would’ve had little opportunity for formal schooling or an advanced education. Unless you were among the elite or at least of some means, your chances of attending a local academy or Harvard College weren’t great. But the American Revolution ushered in a new era of education in the United States that paved the way for the educational opportunities we take for granted today...


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 February 18, 2022  1h3m
 
 

episode 219: 219. Negotiating Federal-State Relations with Dr. Grace Mallon


For years after the ratification of the Constitution, Americans debated how the Federal Government and the several states should relate to each other, and work together, to form a more perfect union. The success, if not the survival, of the new republic depended on these governments cooperating on any number of issues, from customs enforcement to Native American policy. But where there was collaboration there was also friction among them over matters like state sovereignty, slavery, and land...


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 February 2, 2022  44m
 
 

episode 221: 218. Finding Washington at the Plow with Dr. Bruce Ragsdale


In the 1760s, tobacco was one of Virginia’s chief exports. But George Washington turned away from the noxious plant and began dreaming of wheat and a more profitable future. Washington became enamored with new ideas powering the agricultural revolution in Great Britain and set out to implement this new form of husbandry back home at Mount Vernon...


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 January 20, 2022  44m
 
 

episode 217: 217. Exploring Star Territory with Dr. Gordon Fraser


In the 18th and 19th centuries, North Americans looked up at the sky in wonder at the cosmos and what lay beyond earth’s atmosphere. But astronomers like Benjamin Banneker, Georgia surveyors, Cherokee storytellers, and government officials also saw in the stars ways to master space on earth by controlling the heavens above. And print technology became a key way for Americans of all stripes to find ways to understand their own place in the universe and their relationship to each other...


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 January 6, 2022  50m
 
 

episode 216: 216. Digitally Deconstructing the Constitution with Dr. Nicholas Cole


When delegates assembled in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787 to write a new Constitution, they spent months in secret writing a document they hoped would form a more perfect Union. When we talk about the convention, we often talk of the Virginia Plan, the Connecticut Compromise, the 3/5ths clause, and other major decisions that shaped the final document...


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 December 23, 2021  47m
 
 

episode 215: 215. Reading Thomas Paine's Rights of Man with Dr. Frances Chiu


For most Americans, Thomas Paine is the radical Englishman, and former tax collector, who published Common Sense in early 1776. His claim that hereditary monarchy was an absurdity and that the “cause of America was in great measure the cause of all mankind” galvanized American rebels into thinking more seriously about independence than they had only a few months before...


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 December 2, 2021  26m
 
 

episode 216: Previewing Episode 1 of Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington's Mount Vernon


On this week's show, we bring you Episode 1 of Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Entitled "Passages," it features the life of Sambo Anderson, who was just a boy when he was captured in West Africa, survived the Middle Passage, and purchased by an ambitious George Washington sometime in the late 1760s. During his years of enslavement at Mount Vernon, Anderson became a carpenter, a husband, and a father...


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 November 17, 2021  42m
 
 

episode 215: Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington's Mount Vernon (Coming November 15, 2021)


Intertwined tells the story of the more than 577 people enslaved by George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon. Told through the biographies of Sambo Anderson, Davy Gray, William Lee, Kate, Ona Judge, Nancy Carter Quander, Edmund Parker, Caroline Branham, and the Washingtons, this eight-part podcast series explores the lives and labors of Mount Vernon’s enslaved community, and how we interpret slavery at the historic site today...


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 November 10, 2021  1m