The Age of Jackson Podcast

149 The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America with J.D. Dickey

The 1830s were the most violent time in American history outside of war. Men battled each other...

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148 William Hunter, A British Soldier's Son Who Became an Early American with Eugene A. Procknow

In June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress...

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147 John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America with Eric C. Smith

John Leland (1754-1841) was one of the most influential and entertaining religious figures in...

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146 The Evolution of American Equality with Michael A. Bellesiles

The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and...

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145 Cronyism in Early America with Patrick Newman

Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in America 1607-1849 describes the evolution of political favor...

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144 The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party with Yonatan Eyal

The phrase 'Young America' connoted territorial and commercial expansion in the antebellum United...

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143 The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America with Jordan T. Watkins

In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and...

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142 Free People of Color in the South with Warren E. Milteer Jr.

On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet...

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141 Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery with Ken Ellingwood

The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when...

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140 Constitutionalism in the American Revolution with Gordon S. Wood

The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s...

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139 Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America with Matthew W. Dougherty

The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled “lost tribes of Israel”—Israelites...

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138 Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman with Melanie Kirkpatrick

For half a century Sarah Josepha Hale was the most influential woman in America. As editor of...

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137 Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America with Kara M. French

How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have...

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136 C-SPAN's Presidential Historians Survey with Thomas Balcerski

When C-SPAN conducted our first Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership in 2000, we worked...

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136 C-SPAN's 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership with Thomas J. Balcerski

In 2000, C-SPAN's original team of academic advisers devised a survey in which participants used...

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135 The Science of Abolition with Eric Herschthal

In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders’ scientific...

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134 Nativists, Catholics, and Citizen-Soldiers in the Philadelphia 1844 Riots with Zachary M. Schrag

America is in a state of deep unrest, grappling with xenophobia, racial, and ethnic tension a...

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133 Joseph Smith for President in the Election of 1844 with Spencer W. McBride

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus...

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132 American Republics, A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 with Alan Taylor

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands...

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131 The War of 1812 in the West with David Kirkpatrick

The spring of 1812 found the young American republic on edge. The British Navy was impressing...

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