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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...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Manifest Destiny
America’s westward surge in the first half of the nineteenth century wasn’t just a geographic story—it was the moment the young republic transformed its...
Daniel Boone: The Frontiersman Who Opened the American West
Few Americans have become as legendary as Daniel Boone. In popular imagination, Boone was the fearless woodsman wearing buckskin, carrying a long rifle, and...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Myths Take Hold
Episode 20 of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story traces the moment when the young United States stepped out of its revolutionary shadow...
Tecumseh and The Prophet
Few Native American leaders have inspired as much admiration as Tecumseh and his younger brother, Tenskwatawa, better known as the Prophet. Together, they led...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Revolution of 1800
The election of 1800 didn’t unfold with muskets or barricades, yet it transformed the United States more profoundly than many events that did. This...
The Republic at War with Itself: America’s Bitter Political Battles of the 1790s
The United States emerged from the American Revolution united in victory but divided almost immediately over what that victory meant. The Constitution had settled...