The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Imperial Crisis
In this episode of The Empire: A 250‑Year American Story, JB Shreve traces the moment when Britain and its American colonies first realized they...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Ideas that Gave Rise to...
The newest episode of Empire: A 250 Year American Story steps into the threshold of the American Revolution—not through battles or declarations, but through...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Colonies (Part 3)
This episode traces the southern arc of Britain’s North American colonies and the forces that quietly reshaped them long before independence was on anyone’s...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Colonies (Part 2)
This episode continues the unfolding story of the original thirteen colonies, tracing how distinct communities—often separated by belief, ambition, and circumstance—took root along the...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Colonies (Part 1)
This episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story zooms in on the origins of the first English colonies, tracing how their distinct...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – Pilgrims In A Strange Land
This episode traces the unlikely, often harrowing path that led a small band of English believers to the edge of a continent—and into the...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – New Spain and New France
The latest episode of The Empire: A 250‑Year American Story plunges listeners into the turbulent world that shaped the earliest European settlements in North...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The New World
The next episode in our podcast series The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, revisits the familiar story of Christopher Columbus—but strips away the...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Old World (Part 2)
In this episode of our podcast series The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, we continue our look at the old world, before the...
The Empire: A 250 Year American Story – The Old World (Part 1)
Our podcast series and story The Empire: A 250 Year American Story begins here! Step into "the world before Columbus"—a world far more complex,...