History: Beyond the Textbook
de Alex Mattke
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History: Beyond the Textbook examines American history through the experiences of those who lived it! Each 12-episode season, high school history teacher Alex Mattke covers a separate era of American history and features perspectives on well-known events and lesser-known experiences of famous historical figures. Season Three, covering "America's Crucial Years," returns on October 8 with new episodes every Tuesday up until the finale on December 24! Catch up on Seasons One (America's Colonial Era) and Two (America's Revolution) wherever you listen to podcasts.
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- 4.12: The Conscious Campaigner: Aaron Burr and the “Revolutionary” Election of 1800 · 29 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 12Send us Fan Mail Every four years, the United States holds a presidential election, and the Electoral College selects the next president. 1800 was no different, although the…
- 4.11: Benjamin Franklin Bache and Thomas Jefferson: The Republican Renegades of the Alien and Sedition Acts · 27 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 11Send us Fan Mail There are a few moments in American history where it appeared at the time, and even more so in hindsight, where laws were passed that stunted individual American…
- 4.10: Elbridge Gerry and Dr. George Logan: Polarizing Politicians of the XYZ Affair · 30 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 10Send us Fan Mail As John Adams claimed the presidency, “France” was the nation that lay on the minds of most Americans, and these problems would lead to hostile actions towards…
- 4.9: Olaudah Equiano and James Monroe: the Author and Governor of early American Abolition · 32 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 9Send us Fan Mail The idea of immediately ending slavery was viewed as unconstitutional since it was never explicitly mentioned in the document that came out of the Philadelphia…
- 4.8: Eli Whitney, the Cotton Gin, and the foundations of American Industry · 30 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 8Send us Fan Mail Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in the 1790’s, and the previously laborious process of separating cotton seeds by hand was now mechanized, and thus, more…
- 4.7: Dr. Rush, the Free African Society, and Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 · 31 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 7Send us Fan Mail Yellow fever devastated the nation’s capital of Philadelphia in 1793…hardly a center known for its tropical climate, but the disease nevertheless proved deadly…
- 4.6: His Own Man: Toussaint Louverture, Indispensable Leader of the Haitian Revolution · 34 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 6Send us Fan Mail The struggles of Haiti go back talking hundreds of years, from when French colonization and their participation in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade reshaped the…
- 4.5: Kamehameha The Great and the Unification of the Hawai'ian Islands · 31 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 5Send us Fan Mail Unfortunately, in your typical U.S History course, Hawai’i probably enters the narrative during a unit on imperialism, where Queen Lili’uokalani was forced into…
- 4.4: Little Turtle, the “Mad” General, and the Battle of Fallen Timbers · 28 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 4Send us Fan Mail Conflict between Indigenous tribes and nations and European, and later, American, settlers, is a consistent theme throughout American history, and we’ve…
- 4.3: John Trumbull and James Madison: The Artist and Antagonist of Jay’s Treaty · 33 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 2Send us Fan Mail One was the preeminent politician of his time who helped shape that America we have today, well-versed in history, philosophy, and political theory. The other is…
- 4.2: Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution · 33 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 2Send us Fan Mail It was an event that we as a nation helped inspire and was seen as an extension, maybe even a culmination, of the application of Enlightenment ideals to an…
- 4.1: Alexander Hamilton: The First Bank of the United States and the Whiskey Rebellion · 31 min · Temporada 4 Episódio 1Send us Fan Mail Borrowing a host of ideas from his elder financier Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton would accept the position of Secretary of the Treasury and metaphorically…
- 3.12: Benjamin Banneker: Unsung Renaissance Man of America’s Crucial Years · 28 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 12Send us Fan Mail It was a decision that came about during a dinner party…allegedly. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson invited Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton…
- 3.11: Sally and James Hemings, and Shifting Dymanics of American Slavery · 31 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 11Send us Fan Mail Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello was his home, his castle, and in a way, his personal fiefdom: he had legal control over the happenings at this place, over the…
- 3.10: Charles Willson Peale and William Hill Brown: the Curator and the Novelist of America’s Crucial Years · 31 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 10Send us Fan Mail “Culture.” It’s a word that means something different depending on who you ask; to some, it means an element that is “popular” and can serve as a common frame of…
- 3.9: Mercy Otis Warren and Patrick Henry: Anti-Federalist Antagonists of Constitutional Ratification · 28 minSend us Fan Mail It’s tough to say what most history classrooms emphasize when they cover Constitutional ratification, but our focus will be on its opponents...those individuals…
- 3.8: Roger Sherman and George Mason: Self-Educated Sages of the Constitutional Convention · 26 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 8Send us Fan Mail The first formal meeting to reassess the Articles of Confederation was held in Annapolis, Maryland in September 1786, at about the same time as Shays’ Rebellion…
- 3.7: The Farmer and the Fighter: Daniel Shays, Benjamin Lincoln, and the Importance of Shays' Rebellion · 26 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 7Send us Fan Mail What became known as “Shays' Rebellion” was put down by force, but it opened the eyes of many to the reality that the current government was not working, and it…
- 3.6: Contrasting Tales of Settlement: Blue Jacket and Rufus Putnam in the Northwest Territory · 31 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 6Send us Fan Mail We’ll focus on the American Midwest with this episode: specifically, the areas affected by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. These fertile lands north of the Ohio…
- 3.5: Alexander McGillivray and the U.S.-Creek Treaty of 1790 · 29 min · Temporada 3 Episódio 5Send us Fan Mail The Peace of Paris would certainly anger and frustrate the many nations who held the lands that were supposedly now in American possession, and one of the most…
