This week, Hamilton looks to raise revenues through a Whiskey Tax, which swiftly starts to go wrong.

Episode 170 - The Whiskey Tax

This week we turn our attention to the western frontier as we explore the origins of the whiskey rebellion.

Episode 169 - The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Life's Problems

This week we follow Hamilton's battle to get his four point financial plan approved.

Episode 168 - Hamilton's Financial Plan

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This week we cover the creation of the initial federal departments, focusing in particular on the treasury and the idea of national debt.

Episode 167 - Prime Minister Hamilton

This week we explore the creation of the Bill of Rights, discussing how and why they took the form they did.

Episode 166 - The Bill of Rights

This week we introduce Congress as the House and Senate get to work. We also look at Washington's attempts to establish the right tone for the Presidency.

Episode 165 - The First Congress

This week we conclude a high-speed overview of the French Revolution.

Episode 164 - The French Revolution Part 2

This week we begin a high-speed overview of the French Revolution.

Episode 163 - The French Revolution Part 1

This week we look at the ratification process for the constitution as the Federalists and Antifederalists fought a war of words across the country.

Episode 162 - Ratification

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This week we begin the real narrative. We look at the foundation of the Virginia Company, the failed settlement of St. George's Fort, North Virginia, and the voyage of the ships which would found Jamestown. Also included are a witty observation by Thomas Jefferson about the weather and the worst Back to the Future joke ever.

Episode 2 - Jamestown: The Voyage

This week we cover the fall of Bute in London, and recap the postwar situation in North America, going into detail with Connecticut's invasion of Wyoming.

Episode 123 - Connecticut Invades Wyoming

Surprise early episode! This week introduce the Native Americans in the region, the Powhatan Confederacy. We look at their leadership, society and culture. We then actually found the Jamestown settlement.

Episode 3 - Jamestown: The Settlement

This week we bring the Seven Years War to a close with a Prussian miracle and a series of British adventures in Havana and Manilla.

Episode 121 - The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg

This week we begin season 2. We start our coverage of Native Americans by going back 70,000 years to Africa to look at the human migration from Africa to North America, before looking at the geography of the North American continent. This takes us back through 490 million years of geological fun!

Episode 61 - Native Americans 1: Mother

This week we recap the Seven Years War and cover the Treaty of Paris.

Episode 122 - The Treaty of Paris (1763)

This week we cover the event that dominated the southern colonies in the early 1760s, the Cherokee War.

Episode 119 - The Cherokee War

This week we look at issues with the phrase 'Thirteen Colonies', and explore North America in the mid-eighteenth century.

Episode 94 - Thirteen Colonies

In this week's Friends themed episode Newport sails back to London to report on the foundation of Jamestown, but in Virginia everything starts falling apart. There is an outbreak of Typhoid Fever, everyone starts arguing, and then Smith goes on an adventure.

Episode 4 - The One Where Everyone Dies

This week we begin the serious study of the Native American peoples. We talk about how we are going to cover them, and about how to fairly assign weight between Euroamerican history and native traditions.

Episode 62 - Native Americans 2: Myths, Legends, and Folktales

This week we the British set out their plans for 1757, and suffer another disaster at Fort William Henry.

Episode 108 - The Fort William Henry Massacre

Benjamin Franklin

This week we introduce the first of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin.

Episode 95 - Benjamin Franklin

Today we analyse the state of the British Empire in the mid 1700s..

Episode 92 - Reboot

This week the narrative speeds up and we cover most of 1621. We look at an expedition to speak with Massasoit, fertiliser, and the first thanksgiving.

Episode 23 - The First Thanksgiving

This week we catch up with Frederick across 1759 and 1760 before covering the death of George II and bringing Lord Bute to the stage.

Episode 118 - The Old George is Dead, Long Live the George

This week we look at war against Indians, the tale of Blackbeard, and we introduce Benjamin Franklin into the narrative.

Episode 81 - Pirates of the Chesapeake

This week we return to the south and cover the early history of Carolina, the Roanoke colony, and Elizabethan imperialism.

Episode 57 - Roanoke

This week we take the Pilgrims across the Atlantic to Plymouth. Along the way we look at duels on the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact, how much the Pilgrims hated Cape Cod, and terminology.

Episode 20 - The Voyage of the Mayflower

This week we return to North America. We look at the rise of the Iroquois, and the beginnings of their colapsing authority in the Ohio Valley as the French and British watch.

Episode 97 - French and Indians

This week we return to Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Haven to see them, along with Plymouth, form the first American federal institution, the United Colonies of New England.

Episode 46 - New England Confederation

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