EXTRA RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
Hey Teachers! Want to use the podcast in your class? We partnered with educators to bring you a variety of materials (and we threw in some other stuff) to benefit you and your students!
VOL. 1 EPISODE 1:
BEFORE JAMESTOWN
Jamestown was the first English colony in America....sort of. Colonization was a global and bloody process of trial and error. We tell the story of colonization before the English found success in Jamestown.
VOL. 1 EPISODE 2:
NATIVE AMERICANS, COLONISTS, & NATURE
Native Americans and British colonists inhabited the same land but their beliefs, along with how they related to the environment, could not have been more different. We discuss the collision of these ideas and how the land was remade in the process.
VOL. 1 EPISODE 3:
THE RISE & FALL OF PURITANISM
The Puritans! They’re not as boring as you think they are! In fact, they are really misunderstood. We discuss what they believed and the society they created in New England--and how it collapsed.
VOL. 1 EPISODE 4:
ATLANTIC TRADE
Sugar, gold, potatoes, and slaves. We discuss how trade created, destroyed, and transformed cultures on both sides of the Atlantic.
OTHERING & 15 c. CONTEXT FOR ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE & CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
This bloody conflict reshaped colonial power across the globe and set the stage for the American Revolution. So why don’t we talk about it more? Because it’s really, really complicated. We discuss it anyway.
VOL. 1 EPISODE 5:
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
VOL. 1 EPISODE 6:
INTERNAL REVOLUTION
The American Revolution didn’t just create a new nation, it created a new way of thinking. We discuss how religion, philosophy, and politics fused to form a distinctly American worldview.