While you wait, with bated breath no doubt, for the next episode of The History of the Americans Podcast, you might give a listen to the linked episode of the Age of Jackson podcast. It is an interview of Gordon S. Wood, one of the greatest living scholars of the American Revolution. Professor Wood tells much of interest in the framing of the Constitution, and toward the end laments the rise of presentism and the politicization of history, which of course is music to my ears.
Attention Boston-area listeners and friends of the pod: We will do a meet-up on June 25, 2025 at 5:30 at Trillium – Fort Point, 50 Thomson Pl, Boston...
Map of the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, from the Paul Revere House museum, photo credit me. Interactive map from Paul...
Here are some useful maps for following alone with the complicated story of King Philip’s War. The first three come from Matthew J...
Longstanding listener Bruce Hawkins wrote to suggest that I put together a single page with the books I have used for The History of the Americans...
This post is a copy of a translation of Martin Kregier’s “Journal of the Second Esopus War,” which is tough to locate online. I...
For those of you who have become unreconstructed fans of Sir Francis Drake, here’s a nice new video on the Golden Hind, the ship in which he...
