Joanne B. Freeman teaches history at Yale University. She is also a prominent Twitterstorian and podcaster, and a mentor to historians such as Michael Hattem. Her latest book looks at the history of violence in Congress and its role as a catalyst for the Civil War.
Jamestown holds a special place in American history, alongside settlements like Plymouth Colony. In the 1600s, the Virginia Company of London shipped 56 young women across the ocean to become the brides of American settlers. Were they adventurers, victims, or something in between?
World history was forever changed as a result of the American Revolution, but the war also had far-reaching consequences that have gone unexamined—until now. Join historian Craig Bruce Smith as he discusses his book, American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals During the Revolutionary Era.
The Hello Girls of World War 1 were integral to the war’s outcome. But, like the Jamestown Brides, the story of the Hello Girls isn’t well known. In this interview, author Elizabeth Cobbs explains how the WW1 telephone soldiers left their mark on American history.
America is known as a country of religious freedom, but what does that really mean? Join Tisa Wenger, associate professor of American religious history at Yale University, as she discusses her latest book, Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Vaughn Scribner is the author of Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society (New York University Press, 2019).
Natalie McKnight is president of the Dickens Society and Dean of the College of General Studies at Boston University.
Jason Herbert is a Florida high school history teacher and University of Minnesota doctoral candidate. He is also the founder of ‘Historians at the Movies.’
Liz Covart is host of the early American history podcast, Ben Franklin’s World, the and Digital Projects Editor for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Some of her favorite Ben Franklin’s World topics include Paul Revere, the Civil War, and the history of genealogy.
Rod Decker was a Utah political reporter for more than 40 years and is the author of Utah Politics: The Elephant in the Room (Signature Books, 2019). The book provides a political context for many of the events described in Saints 3: Boldly, Nobly, and Independent, 1893–1955.