The Story of America in 365 Days
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Episode 36 – Citizen Genêt
It is February 5th. Welcome to Episode 36 of History in a Year. Today, a rock star diplomat arrives in America. Edmond-Charles Genêt, better known as...
Episode 35 – The French Explosion
It is February 4th. Welcome to Episode 35 of History in a Year. Today, the world catches fire. The French Revolution explodes across the Atlantic, for...
Episode 34 – The Bank (Extended Edition)
It is February 3rd. Welcome to Episode 34 of History in a Year. Today, the ink is barely dry on the "Dinner Table Bargain" before a new war erupts in ...
Episode 33 – The Room Where It Happened
It is February 2nd. Welcome to Episode 33 of History in a Year. Today, the gridlock in Congress threatens to tear the United States apart. Alexander H...
Episode 32 – The Cabinet Battle
It is February 1st. Welcome to Episode 32 of History in a Year. Today, the war against the British is over, but the war for America’s soul has just ...
Episode 31 – The Birth of a Nation: A Month in Review (20-Minute Special)
It is January 31st. Welcome to the Season Finale of January. Today, we hit the pause button for a special 30-minute deep dive. For the last 30 days, w...
Episode 30 – The First Inauguration
It is January 30th. Welcome to Episode 30 of History in a Year. Today, the experiment officially begins. We travel to New York City—the first capita...
Episode 29 – The War of Words
It is January 29th. Welcome to Episode 29 of History in a Year. Today, the ink is dry on the Constitution, but the battle is just beginning. We witnes...
Episode 28 – The Rising Sun
It is January 28th. Welcome to Episode 28 of History in a Year. Today, the miracle at Philadelphia is complete. We stand in the room on September 17, ...
Episode 27 – We Need A President
It is January 27th. Welcome to Episode 27 of History in a Year. Today, the Founding Fathers try to solve the hardest puzzle of the Convention: The Pre...
Episode 26 – The Great Compromise
It is January 26th. Welcome to Episode 26 of History in a Year. Today, the Constitutional Convention hits a brick wall. The Big States and Small State...
Episode 25 – The Convention Begins
It is January 25th. Welcome to Episode 25 of History in a Year. Today, fifty-five men gather in a sweltering room in Philadelphia to perform a "peacef...
Episode 24 – Shays’ Rebellion
It is January 24th. Welcome to Episode 24 of History in a Year. Today, the "Rope of Sand" snaps. In the winter of 1786, thousands of angry veterans in...
Episode 23 – A Rope of Sand
It is January 23rd. Welcome to Episode 23 of History in a Year. Today, the party is over. The war is won, but the peace is a disaster. We explore the ...
Episode 22 – Peace & Resignation
It is January 22nd. Welcome to Episode 22 of History in a Year. Today, the long war finally ends. We watch the British fleet sail out of New York Harb...
Episode 21 – The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King
It is January 21st. Welcome to Episode 21 of History in a Year. Today, the American Revolution faces its final and most dangerous test—not from the ...
Episode 20 – The World Turned Upside Down
It is January 20th. Welcome to Episode 20 of History in a Year. Today, the trap snaps shut. General Cornwallis retreats to the Virginia coast, waiting...
Episode 19 – Cowpens & Guilford Courthouse
It is January 19th. Welcome to Episode 19 of History in a Year. Today, the Americans stop running and start fighting smart. General Nathanael Greene t...
Episode 18 – The Swamp Fox & The Overmountain Men
It is January 18th. Welcome to Episode 18 of History in a Year. Today, the war moves into the shadows. With the regular American army destroyed, the S...
Episode 17 – Treason!
It is January 17th. Welcome to Episode 17 of History in a Year. Today, while the war rages in the South, the American Revolution nearly dies from a kn...
Episode 16 – The War Moves South
It is January 16th. Welcome to Episode 16 of History in a Year. Today, the British change their strategy. Frustrated by the stalemate in the North, th...
Episode 15 – Valley Forge
It is January 15th. Welcome to Episode 15 of History in a Year. Today, we enter the "Winter of Despair." While Benjamin Franklin drinks champagne in P...
Episode 14 – The French Alliance
It is January 14th. Welcome to Episode 14 of History in a Year. Today, we leave the frozen woods of America and travel to the glittering palaces of Pa...
Episode 13 – Gentleman Johnny’s Mistake
It is January 13th. Welcome to Episode 13 of History in a Year. Today, the British Empire tries to cut the rebellion in half. A dashing general named ...
Episode 12 – Victory or Death
It is January 12th. Welcome to Episode 12 of History in a Year. Today, the American Revolution is on life support. George Washington has lost New York...
Episode 11 – The Empire Strikes Back
It is January 11th. Welcome to Episode 11 of History in a Year. Today, the celebration ends. While the ink is still drying on the Declaration of Indep...
Episode 10 – The Miracle of the Guns
It is January 10th. Welcome to Episode 10 of History in a Year. Today, we witness a miracle of logistics. A 25-year-old bookseller named Henry Knox co...
Episode 9 – Common Sense
It is January 9th. Welcome to Episode 9 of History in a Year. Today, we meet the most unlikely Founding Father of them all: a bankrupt corset-maker na...
Episode 8 – Don’t Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes
It is January 8th. Welcome to Episode 8 of History in a Year. Today, the "Ragtag" army proves it can bite. We witness the first offensive strike of th...
Episode 7 – The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
It is January 7th. Welcome to Episode 7 of History in a Year. Today, the talking stops and the shooting begins. After a long winter of tension, Genera...
Episode 6 – The Empire Punishes Boston
It is January 6th. Welcome to Episode 6 of History in a Year. Yesterday, the tea went into the harbor. Today, the Empire strikes back. We witness the ...
Episode 5 – The Boston Tea Party
It is January 5th. Welcome to Episode 5 of History in a Year. Today, we attend the most famous protest in American history. But the Boston Tea Party w...
Episode 4 – The Boston Massacre
It is January 4th. Welcome to Episode 4 of History in a Year. Tensions in Boston have been simmering for years, but on a freezing night in March 1770,...
Episode 3 – 1765 No Taxation Without Representation
It is January 3rd. Welcome to Episode 3 of History in a Year. Yesterday, we left the British Empire drowning in debt after the French and Indian War. ...
Episode 2 – 1763: The Victory That Broke the Bank
It is January 2nd. Yesterday, we witnessed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But today, we travel back 13 years to 1763 to answer the question:...
Episode 1 – 1776 The Fourth of July
It is the summer of 1776 in Philadelphia. The heat is stifling, the flies are biting, and the British navy is assembling the largest armada in history...