Pepperdine University professor Edward Larson joins us to discuss strategies from the American and British sides to emancipate enslaved Black people against the backdrop of the American Revolution.
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Manifest Destiny And America’s Genocide
Jeffrey Ostler, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon, joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how America was built in part on relentless violence and Native American dispossession.
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In The Revolution, Most Black Soldiers Fought For The British
Farah Peterson, law professor and legal historian at the University of Chicago Law School, joins us to set the record straight on the Black experience dating back to the time of the nation’s founding.
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The Fate Of The American Revolution
Historian Nathaniel Philbrick joins us to talk about how the relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold changed during the Revolutionary War.
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General Marquis de Lafayette
This hour, we’ll talk about the integral role Marquis de Lafayette played in the American Revolution – and about his close friendship with George Washington – with Sarah Vowell. She’s the author of “Lafayette in the Somewhat United States.”
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