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. Dieser Podcast erscheint wöchentlich.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 7 hours 23 minutes

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episode 214: 214. Weaponizing Settlement in Nova Scotia with Dr. Alexandra Montgomery


Although you might not realize it, in the years before the American Revolution, Nova Scotia was all the rage. People concocted various schemes to settle it, and the British government saw it as one of the keys to its new vision of empire after the Seven Years' War. Nova Scotia has a fascinating, often troubled history...


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 November 4, 2021  46m
 
 

episode 213: 213. Sailing to Freedom with Dr. Timothy D. Walker


In May 1796, an enslaved woman named Ona Judge fled the presidential household in Philadelphia and escaped to freedom on a ship headed for New Hampshire. Judge’s successful flight was one of many such escapes by the sea in the 18th and 19th centuries. Enslaved people boarded ships docked in ports great and small and used coastal water ways and the ocean as highways to freedom...


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 October 23, 2021  42m
 
 

episode 212: 212. Recruiting the Hero of Two Worlds with Mike Duncan


To kick off Season 6, we bring you the story of America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchmen. In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette sailed from France with a commission as a major general in the Continental Army. Unlike many other European soldiers of fortune, Lafayette paid his own way and had no expectation that he would be placed at the head of American forces...


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 October 6, 2021  56m
 
 

episode 211: 211. Revitalizing Myaamia Language and Culture with George Ironstrack (Summer Repeat)


In the eighteenth century, the Myaamia people inhabited what are now parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. More commonly known in English as the Miami, the Myaamia figure prominently in the early history of the United States, especially in the 1790s, when war chief Mihšihkinaahkwa (or Little Turtle) co-led an alliance of Miami and Shawnee warriors that defeated successive American armies in the Ohio valley before meeting defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794...


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 September 22, 2021  1h11m
 
 

episode 210: 210. Winning a Consolation Prize with Dr. Abby Mullen (Summer Repeat)


Consuls are essential to American foreign relations. Although they may not be as flashy or as powerful as an Ambassador like Thomas Jefferson or John Quincy Adams, they’re often the go-to people when an American gets in trouble abroad or when a trade deal needs to get done. Consuls operate in cities and towns throughout the world, helping to advance American interests and maintain good relations with their host countries, all while helping you replace your lost passport...


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 September 16, 2021  50m
 
 

episode 209: 209. Reading Letters by Early American Women with Kathryn Gehred (Summer Repeat)


If you pull any decent history book off your shelf right now, odds are that it’s filled with quotes from letters, diaries, or account books that help the author tell her story and provide the evidence for her interpretation of the past. It’s almost always the case that the quotation you read in a book is just one snippet of a much longer document...


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 September 1, 2021  1h4m
 
 

episode 208: 208. Harnessing Harmony in the Early Republic with Billy Coleman (Summer Repeat)


On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key began composing "The Star-Spangled Banner after witnessing the British attack on Fort McHenry. Of all the things he could have done after seeing that flag, why did Key write a song?  And how did his new composition fit into a much longer history of music as a form of political persuasion in the Early Republic?

On today’s episode, Dr...


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 August 18, 2021  1h5m
 
 

episode 207: 207. Offering George Washington a Royal Gift with Professor José Emilio Yanes (Summer Repeat)


In 1784, King Charles III of Spain sent George Washington a token of his esteem. Knowing that Washington had long sought a Spanish donkey for his Mount Vernon estate, the king permitted a jack to be exported to the new United States. Washington named the donkey Royal Gift in recognition of its royal origin, and the donkey became somewhat of a minor celebrity when he disembarked from his ship in 1785. As it turns out, Spanish jacks like Royal Gift were highly prized animals in the Atlantic world...


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 August 4, 2021  39m
 
 

episode 206: 206. Promoting Joseph Smith for President with Dr. Spencer W. McBride


The American Revolution dismembered a protestant empire. In the years during and after the war, states disestablished their churches, old and new denominations flourished, and Americans enshrined religious freedom into their state and federal constitutions.

But claiming religious freedom in a democracy was not the same as enjoying it...


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 July 22, 2021  44m
 
 

episode 205: 205. Grieving with the Widow Washington with Dr. Martha Saxton


In the eighteenth century, death stalked early Americans like a predator hunting its prey. In Virginia, as in other colonies, death made children orphans and wives widows, making a precarious existence all that much more challenging. For the Virginia elite, death also created opportunities for widows and widowers alike to protect their interests, their property, and their social standing through advantageous re-marriages...


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 July 12, 2021  39m