2 Complicated 4 History

Is it the government’s job to legislate the social behavior of its citizens? In the Progressive Era, many elites believed that it was, and they created institutions to “fix” noncompliance. Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac Loftus are joined by Dr. Erin Bush to discuss child delinquency and social control at the turn of the twentieth century. Everything 2c4h here. Check out our premium channel with other incredible shows here Produced by Primary Source Media To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When George Washington was asked to describe himself, one of the first words he used was farmer. Farming was central to Washington’s identity, and enslaved people were central to Washington's farms. Isaac Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome Dr. Bruce Ragsdale to discuss one of the most important, and underexplored, aspects of the life of our first president. Relevant Links: Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Dr. Bruce Ragsdale - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674246386 Eighteenth-Century Farming - https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/farm/18th-century-farming/ George Washington, the Farmer - https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/farming/ Thomas Jefferson, the Farmer - https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/a-day-in-the-life-of-jefferson/attending-to-my-farm/ Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/tobacco-in-colonial-virginia/ George Washington’s Farm Reports - https://crowd-media.loc.gov/cm-uploads/resources/GW_Farm_Reports_Essay_Miller_Mitchell.pdf George Washington and Slavery - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/washington-george-and-slavery/ George Washington’s Last Will and Testament - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0404-0001 Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan - https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847176/slave-counterpoint/  George Washington to James Anderson, 13 December 1799 - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0403-0001 Premium listening at Into History Produced by Primary Source Media To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The name Benedict Arnold has become synonymous with the word traitor. But what role did his wife, Peggy Shippen Arnold, play in the plot to deliver West Point to the British army? Isaac Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome Dr. Charlene Boyer Lewis, who asserts that Peggy deserves a more central role in the infamous spy story. Relevant Links: "America: The Motion Picture" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6733874/ The Brady Bunch episode where Bobby has to play Benedict Arnold - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531088/ Joseph Reed - https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/joseph-reed/ Edward Shippen IV - https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/shippen-family-philadelphia John Andre - https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Andre Joseph Stansbury - https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/stansbury-joseph "The Americans" television show - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/ Fort Clinton (West Point) -  https://www.battlefields.org/visit/heritage-sites/fort-clinton HMS Vulture - https://snr.org.uk/the-case-of-h-m-s-vulture/ Dr. Charlene Boyer-Lewis’ book on Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte - https://shop.mdhistory.org/elizabeth-patterson-bonaparte-an-american-aristocr.html TURN on AMC - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543328/ Portrayal of John Andre actor - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270625/ Where to find Dr. Charlene Boyer Lewis - https://www.kzoo.edu/academic/faculty/profile/clewis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Gilded Age. You may know it as an era in American history, but beyond that, it remains a mystery. Professor Greg Jackson, host of the podcast History That Doesn’t Suck, explains to Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus why the Gilded Age is actually a fascinating, relevant, and worthwhile area of study, as well as why Theodore Roosevelt was, “the most American American to ever America.” Check out everything 2c4h at 2c4hpod.com Check out our premium content at intohistory.com/2c4h Relevant Links: History That Doesn’t Suck - https://www.htdspodcast.com Night at the Museum - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477347/ Airship - https://airship.fm Teddy Roosevelt - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/ J. P. Morgan - https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-P-Morgan Patrick Henry - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrick-Henry Transcontinental railroad - https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/articles-and-essays/history-of-railroads-and-maps/the-transcontinental-railroad/ Sears homes - http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/index.htm Gilded Age - https://www.britannica.com/event/Gilded-Age John Quincy Adams - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-quincy-adams/ Andrew Jackson - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/andrew-jackson/ Progressive Era - https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-Progressive-era East India Company - https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/East-India-Company Ellis Island - https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-history/ Andrew Carnegie - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Carnegie William Howard Taft - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-howard-taft/ Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 18 August 1803, “I infer that the less we say about constitutional difficulties respecting Louisiana the better.” - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-05-02-0343 Instagram - @historythatdoesntsuck Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/historythatdoesntsuck Twitter - @HTDSpod To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most of us studied the American Revolution in grade school. But what did other nations think about the event? Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome Dr. Bertrand Van Ruymbeke to discuss how the American Revolution influenced the French people, the monarchy, and the future of the French nation Check out our ad free and bonus content over at: https://intohistory.com/2c4h For everything else 2 Complicated 4 History check out: 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: America 2026 - https://www.america2026.eu/  Benjamin Franklin to Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, 22 September 1769 - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-16-02-0117 Affaires de l'Angleterre et de l'Amérique - https://dictionnaire-journaux.gazettes18e.fr/journal/0004-affaires-de-langleterre-et-de-lamerique Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer - https://history.delaware.gov/john-dickinson-plantation/dickinsonletters/pennsylvania-farmer-letters/#:~:text=In%20a%20series%20of%20fourteen,living%20in%20the%20American%20Colonies Denis Diderot - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Denis-Diderot Jean-Jacques Rousseau – https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Mapping the Republic of Letters - https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/novemberdecember/feature/mapping-the-republic-letters Elizabeth Willing Powel - https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-willing-powel/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Into History: https://intohistory.com/2c4h Feed drop featuring Shipwrecks and Seadogs feed drop! Episode Description: The Cod Wars were a series of conflicts that took place between Iceland and Great Britain during the 20th century. Centered around disputes over fishing rights and territorial waters, these confrontations showcased the struggle between Iceland's efforts to protect its valuable cod fishing industry and Britain's interests in maintaining access to these fishing grounds. For photos and sources please visit https://shipwrecksandseadogs.com/blog/2023/07/11/cod-wars/. Show Description:Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs is a maritime history podcast which tells the stories of the most notorious, tragic, and mysterious events in the history of ocean voyages, along with the most amazing and significant accomplishments in maritime history To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did a woman's designation of legal personhood change when she got married in the eighteenth century? And what rights did she lose? Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome historian and scholar Dr. Karin Wulf to discuss women, men, and marriage in the British North American colonies and the early United States. For everything else 2 Complicated 4 History check out 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: Dr. Karin Wulf - https://karinwulf.com/ Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia - https://www.pennpress.org/9780812219173/not-all-wives/ The Geography of Slavery in Virginia - http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/ Virginia Freedom Suits - https://data.virginia.gov/Education/Freedom-Suits/9vfm-ate3/data and https://enduringconnections.salisbury.edu/virginia_freedom_suits_library_of_virginia/records Manumission - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manumission Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri - https://www.pennpress.org/9780812220735/revolutionary-backlash/ Smithsonian articles by Dr. Wulf - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/author/karin-wulf/ Brown University - https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/people/karin-wulf Instagram - @vernaculargenealogy and @karin.wulf  Mastodon - [email protected] Twitter - @kawulf To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What roles did public and private power take in the creation of the British Empire? Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome Dr. Philip J. Stern to discuss four centuries of corporate power fueling British colonialism and attempt to answer the deceptively simple question, “What is a corporation?” Everything 2 Complicated 4 History at 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674988125 The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier’s Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents - https://cmrs.trinity.duke.edu/books/english-east-india-company-height-mughal-expansion-soldiers-diary-1689-siege-bombay-related The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-company-state-9780195393736?cc=us&lang=en& British East India Company - https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/East-India-Company Frederic William Maitland - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-William-Maitland The Virginia Company - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/virginia-company-of-london/ Newgate Prison - https://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/Newgate-Prison/ Royal Niger Company - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Niger-Company Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/hobbess-leviathan Philip J. Stern at Duke University - https://scholars.duke.edu/person/philip.stern To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Historians have called Alexander Hamilton an abolitionist, and he was portrayed as opposed to slavery in the famous broadway musical. However, when writer Jessie Serfilippi dug into the sources, she discovered a different story. What had been hiding in plain sight all along? For everything for 2 Complicated 4 History check out 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: “AS ODIOUS AND IMMORAL A THING”: Alexander Hamilton’s Hidden History as an Enslaver by Jessie Serfilippi: https://parks.ny.gov/documents/historic-sites/SchuylerMansionAlexanderHamiltonsHiddenHistoryasanEnslaver.pdf Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/arts/alexander-hamilton-enslaver-research.html Serfilippi upended ‘Hero Hamilton’ narrative so those he enslaved ‘could take their place in history’: https://altamontenterprise.com/04202022/serfilippi-upended-hero-hamilton-narrative-so-those-he-enslaved-could-take-their-place New Research Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was a Slave Owner: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-alexander-hamilton-slave-owner-180976260/ Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site: https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/33/details.aspx Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site Blog: http://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/p/home-page_5.html The New York Manumission Society: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/history/manumission-society.html Alexander Hamilton Papers at the Library of Congress: https://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMferDsc05.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms003014&_start=1&_jump=magby240XD.ms003014.mss24612.0766 Jessie on Twitter: @Utterly_Jessie Schuyler Mansion on Twitter: @SchuylerMansion On Instagram: schuylermansion To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ever heard a story of someone being hit on the head at a bar and ending up on a British naval vessel? Dr. Denver Brunsman studies the process in between! He joins Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins to discuss impressment gangs and privateers—in other words, legal pirates in the eighteenth century. It’s another world on the water. For everything 2 Complicated 4 History check out 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: Dr. Denver Brunsman, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World – https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/3575/ Privateers – https://www.britannica.com/story/pirates-privateers-corsairs-buccaneers-whats-the-difference Pirates – https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/golden-age-piracy Press Gangs – https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/yourcountry/overview/pressgangs-/ British Navigation Acts – https://www.britannica.com/event/Navigation-Acts Captain Phillips – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/ Royal Ships – https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/rated-navy-ships-17th-19th-centuries HMS Savage – https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/h-m-s-savage/ Pax Britannica – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pax%20Britannica#:~:text=%3A%20British%20peace,to%20which%20Britain%27s%20power%20extended Pirates vs. Press Gangs: The Battle for the Atlantic by Denver Brunsman – https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2210/221065057004/html/ Denver Brunsman Talk: Pirates, Privateers, and Press Gangs in the Early Modern Atlantic (November 2015) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-JLbUb8dg To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices