
Hosted by Jamie Redfern · EN

This week the French disaster in Haiti leads to a massive opportunity for Jefferson as we cover the Louisiana Purchase.

This week we restart the narrative. Continuing our discussion about slavery from last time, we move to the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture.

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.

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.

This week we look at religion in the early republic, exploring the Methodists and Baptists in particular.

This week we look at the spread of education in the early republic, along with the spread of the postal system.

This week we explore how how John Marshall helped create the Private Corporation.

This week we explore how Jefferson attempted to weaken the Supreme Court, and what Marshall did to strengthen it.

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.

This week we explore climate science. We look at what impacts the climate, how it works, and how this was impacting our narrative.