#25 Sidebar: Taking Stock

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Our 25th episode is a Sidebar, "Taking Stock." I talk about the origins of the podcast, and how its approach to history fits in with today's trends in scholarship, including the "Atlantic World" and #VastEarlyAmerica. Oh, and I rant about the weaponization of history for partisan political purposes, and the many reasons why we should all avoid doing that. I hope you find it interesting! Selected references for this episode Karin Wulff, "Vast Early America" Thomas Benjamin, The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and their Shared History, 1400–1900

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#219 The Columbian Exchange and “the Seams of Pangaea”

#218 La Salle, Frontenac, and the Secret Mission for France

#217 Introduction to René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

#216 William Penn and the Selling of Pennsylvania

#215 The Founding of Pennsylvania and Some Other Stuff

#214 William Penn Before Pennsylvania 2: Penn on Trial

#213 Sidebar: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence and Brief Notes on the Signers

#212 William Penn Before Pennsylvania 1

#211 Sidebar Conversation: Richard Bell on The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

#210 The Quakers Invade West New Jersey