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.
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...
Because it is impossible to get enough of me, I appeared on the Michele Tafoya Podcast on January 25, 2024. Michele’s podcast is on the...
Longstanding and attentive listeners have heard me inveigh against “useable history,” or the weaponization of it to win the political...
The main purpose of this micro-episode is to give you the details on the much ballyhooed Philadelphia area meet-up of fans of the podcast. The...
