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The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Others (Part 2)
Black Americans stand at the center of the American story long before the Civil War begins, shaping the nation’s identity, economy, and moral contradictions...
The Evolution of Slavery in America
From the first arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 to the vast cotton plantations of the mid-nineteenth century, slavery in America underwent...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Others (Part 1)
This episode steps away from the main political storyline of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story to examine the experiences of those who...
King Cotton!
Before the Civil War, no commodity shaped the global economy more profoundly than American cotton. During the first half of the nineteenth century, cotton...
The Early Mormons and the Second Great Awakening
Before the Civil War, the United States experienced an explosion of religious experimentation unlike anything in its previous history. The same forces that fueled...
The Theology of Dispensationalism and Origins in the Second Great Awakening
Christian dispensationalism is one of the most influential theological systems to emerge from the modern evangelical world. For millions of Christians, it provides the...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Industry and Revelation
The early nineteenth century was a turning point in the American story—a moment when the nation’s identity, economy, and spiritual life were all being...
The Beecher Family, Second Great Awakening, and Social Reform
The Beecher family became one of the most influential families in nineteenth-century America, standing at the crossroads of revival religion, education, abolitionism, women’s rights,...
The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was one of the most influential religious movements in American history. Sweeping across the United States between roughly 1790 and...
The Trail of Tears
The story of the Trail of Tears is one of the most tragic chapters in American history. It was not simply the forced movement...