History and toddlers don't mix well. This is another short lecture, interrupted periodically by the strange antics of my daughter. Best of luck making sense out of this one...

Jacksonian Democracy (short lecture)

Nov 16th, 2007

This one's only about 50 minutes long and gets cut off at the end because my battery died. You didn't miss much.

The Market Revolution

Nov 10th, 2007

It's more interesting than it sounds.

A weird little war.

An "Empire for Liberty," sort of.

Federalist Era II

Oct 26th, 2007

Foreign policy of the 1790s; Alien and Sedition Acts; the fall of the Federalist Party.

Federalist Era I

Oct 26th, 2007

Back again after a long layoff. Lecture deals with the domestic politics of the Federalist Era during the 1790s.

1780s

Oct 26th, 2007

This lecture deals with the Articles of Confederation period.

The war continues.

Origins of the revolutionary war.

Empires in Conflict

Oct 2nd, 2007

This lecture covers some of the major geopolitical events for the British colonies in the 18th century, including the wars of the 1730s-1760s and the colonists' growing discontent with Great Britain.

Other Colonial Models (Carolina and Pennsylvania)

Sep 27th, 2007

Contrasts across the board. After a discussion of Roger Williams and the Salem Witch hysteria, we look at two of the other colonies that usually get lost in the attention given to Virginia and Massachusetts.