Episodes

  • Episode 199 - Black Spartacus
    Jan 18 2026
    This week we restart the narrative. Continuing our discussion about slavery from last time, we move to the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture.
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    15 mins
  • Episode 198 - Not Yet the Dawn
    Dec 18 2025
    This week we have our final episode in the narrative pause. We discuss slavery. We discuss anti-slavery. And we discuss why anti-slavery didn't work.
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    18 mins
  • Episode 197 - All Men Are Created Equal
    Oct 26 2025
    This week we look at women's rights in the early republic, focusing in on the reaction to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792.
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    11 mins
  • Episode 196 - Theologycast 4
    Oct 12 2025
    This week we look at religion in the early republic, exploring the Methodists and Baptists in particular.
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    15 mins
  • Episode 195 - Education, Education, Education
    Sep 21 2025
    This week we look at the spread of education in the early republic, along with the spread of the postal system.
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    11 mins
  • Episode 194 - Let's Dissolve All the Corporations
    Aug 31 2025
    This week we explore how how John Marshall helped create the Private Corporation.
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    12 mins
  • Episode 193 - Let's Impeach All the Judges
    Aug 3 2025
    This week we explore how Jefferson attempted to weaken the Supreme Court, and what Marshall did to strengthen it.
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    16 mins
  • Episode 192 - Let's Kill All the Lawyers
    Jul 20 2025
    This week we explore the Judiciary. We look at the relationship Americans of the Early Republic had with Judges, taking the story up to the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court.
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    13 mins