2 Complicated 4 History

Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome Dr. Cassandra Good to explore friendships between men and women in the eighteenth century. Did they exist, and do we misinterpret them today? Dr. Good also offers a sneak peek into her just-released book First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America. Find all things 2 Complicated 4 History at 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/founding-friendships-9780199376179?cc=us&lang=en& Alexander Hamilton's letter with a description of John Andre - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0896 Commodore John Rodgers - https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/the-war-of-1812/the-little-belt-affair/commodore-john-rodgers.html Quaker Marriages in Pennsylvania - https://www.phillymag.com/philadelphia-wedding/quaker-wedding-ceremonies-phladelphia/ Abigail Adams’ "Remember the Ladies" letter - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0241 John Adam’s response to Abigail - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0248 Mercy Otis Warren - https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mercy-otis-warren Mercy Otis Warren's history of the revolution - https://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_the_Rise_Progress_and_Termina.html?id=GX0fAAAAYAAJ Dr. Cassandra A. Good’s current research on the Washington grandchildren - https://cassandragoodhistorian.com/current-projects/ Dr. Cassandra A. Good’s website - https://cassandragoodhistorian.com Dr. Cassandra A. Good on Twitter - @CassAGood Dr. Cassandra A. Good on Mastodon - @[email protected] 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

Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome Daniel Cross to the show to examine a side of George Washington and warfare that is rarely discussed—the painful aftereffects. The modern-day vocabulary may not be present, but the humanity and psychological impact of post-traumatic stress disorder can be seen in the words of Washington and revolutionary-era soldiers. For all things 2 Complicated 4 History visit: www.2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: NOTE: At approximately 34 minutes and 40 seconds into the show, there is a mention of suicide.  *Coming Soon* Daniel Cross' website: therealgw.com Robert Dinwiddie - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Dinwiddie John Stanwix - https://www.nps.gov/people/general-john-stanwix.htm Edward Braddock - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Braddock John Robinson -  https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/robinson-john-1705-1766/ Robert Orme - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Orme_(soldier) George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie, "Three families were murdered" - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0044 George Washington to Dinwiddie, "melt me into such deadly sorrow" - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-03-02-0033 George Washington to Andrew Lewis, gather parties to bury the dead -  https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-02-02-0143 Robert Stobo - https://www.nps.gov/people/robert-stobo.htm William Byrd III - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/byrd-william-1728-1777/ George Washington to Francis Halkett - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-05-02-0090 William Peachy to George Washington - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-05-02-0034 Patrick Henry - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrick-Henry Battle of Monmouth - https://www.battlefields.org/learn/revolutionary-war/battles/monmouth Martha Washington - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martha-Washington David Humphreys' Life of General Washington - https://ugapress.org/book/9780820328249/life-of-general-washington/ Fort Ligonier - https://www.fortligonier.org Mount Vernon - https://www.mountvernon.org Colonial Williamsburg - https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org Fort Necessity - https://www.nps.gov/fone/index.htm 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

Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins chat with Dr. Vikki Bynum about a state that you likely never knew existed. Newton Knight and his followers in Mississippi decided it wasn’t enough to simply oppose the confederacy during the Civil War, so they seceded from the South to create the state of Jones. Learn about the true story behind the Hollywood movie as told in Dr. Bynum’s book, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, and what eventually happened to this long-forgotten state All things 2 Complicated 4 History: https://wavve.link/2c4h_pod/episodes Relevant Links: Victoria E. Bynam, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469627052/the-free-state-of-jones-movie-edition/ Propaganda - Birth of a Nation (1915) - https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Birth-of-a-Nation Ethel Knight’s The Echo at the Black Horn - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Free-State-of-Jones-and-The-Echo-of-the-Black-Horn/Thomas-Jefferson-Knight/9781944686956 Free State of Jones, the movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124037/ Dr. Victoria E. Bynam, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469609874/the-long-shadow-of-the-civil-war/ 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

Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome public historian, bestselling author, podcast host, and the proud founder of The Humanity Archive, Jermaine Fowler. His book, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth, celebrates the forgotten stories of history through a focus on our shared humanness. Our past is enriched when we embrace the uncomfortable truths and diverse perspectives that have been suppressed for too long. Everything you need to follow and learn more here: https://linktr.ee/2c4h_podcast Relevant Links: The Humanity Archive Website: https://www.thehumanityarchive.com/ His book, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth - https://www.thehumanityarchive.com/books/#jump The Humanity Archive Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehumanityarchive/ 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

Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome the talent behind the award-nominated podcast, “Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon”—co-writers Jeannette Patrick and Dr. Jim Ambuske, and narrator Brenda Parker. The eight-part podcast, which tells the story of the more than 577 people enslaved by George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon, zooms in past statistics and generalities to present biographies of the people who lived in a state of slavery. Everything you need to follow and learn more here: https://linktr.ee/2c4h_podcast Relevant Links: Jim Ambuske, Jeanette Patrick, and Brenda Parker on Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington's Mount Vernon. https://www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com/show/intertwined-the-enslaved-community-at-george-washingtons-mount-vernon-1/ "Season 2" of Intertwined: https://www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com/show/intertwined-the-enslaved-community-at-george-washingtons-mount-vernon-1/episodes/season/2/ Bruce Ragsdale - https://www.gilderlehrman.org/news/2022-george-washington-prize-awarded-bruce-ragsdale-washington-plow Brenda E. Stevenson - https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/brenda-stevenson Marcus P. Nevius - https://web.uri.edu/history/meet/marcus-p-nevius/ Jeanette Patrick: https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/jpatric7 Dr. Jim Ambuske: https://www.jamespambuske.com/ Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: https://rrchnm.org The Green Tunnel: https://www.r2studios.org/show/the-green-tunnel/ Consolation Prize: https://consolationprize.rrchnm.org 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

Lynn and Isaac welcome Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri to explore ideas of empire through the lens of Thomas Law, the grandson-in-law of George Washington. Law lived and thrived in both British India and the newly created U.S. capital of Washington, DC. The episode also examines racial constructs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and looks at the connections between the United States and Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. Everything you need to follow and learn more here: https://linktr.ee/2c4h_podcast Relevant Links: Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri - https://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/rzagarri Edmund S. Morgan - https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2013/in-memoriam-edmund-sears-morgan The Enlightenment - https://www.britannica.com/event/Enlightenment-European-history/Reason-and-religion East India Company - https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company French & Indian War - https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War Lord Cornwallis - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Cornwallis-1st-Marquess-and-2nd-Earl-Cornwallis Rosemarie Zagarri’s books -  Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic https://www.amrevmuseum.org/read-the-revolution/revolutionary-backlash-2 A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Woman%27s+Dilemma%3A+Mercy+Otis+Warren+and+the+American+Revolution%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781118774816 The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776-1850 https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801420191/the-politics-of-size/#bookTabs=1 Rosemarie Zagarri on Twitter - @rzhist 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

Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins are joined by Historian Samantha Snyder to talk about a very important woman in Philadelphia Society in the eighteenth century: Elizabeth Willing Powel. Powel wielded significant political influence during the presidency of George Washington and traveled amongst the elite social circles of the city. Despite her fascinating story and fame of the day, Powel is only now becoming the subject of a full-length biography written by Snyder. Everything you need to follow and learn more here: https://linktr.ee/2c4h_podcast Relevant Links: Ladies Association of Philadelphia: https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/ladies-association-of-philadelphia/ Elizabeth and Samuel Powel's house: https://www.philalandmarks.org/powel-house Elizabeth Willing Powel influences George Washington's choice to take a second term as president. https://magazine.mountvernon.org/2020/Winter/the-influencer.html Image of Bushrod Washington: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/bushrod-washington/ Samantha Snyder on Twitter: @slsnyder2 Sam Snyder’s website: https://www.samanthalsnyder.com Samantha Snyder’s essay on Elizabeth Willing Powel: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5720 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

Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by Historian and Archaeologist Carin Bloom to discuss Catharine Littlefield Greene and her husband Nathanael Greene. Nathanael may have been one of General George Washington’s most trusted generals, but Caty Greene’s contributions should not be overlooked. Her life, full of fascinating stories and accomplishments, is an excellent example of the importance of examining historical women on their own terms. Everything you need to follow and learn more here: https://linktr.ee/2c4h_podcast Relevant Links: Carin Bloom: https://www.living-herstory.com Catharine Greene: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/catharine-greene-1755-1814/ Nathanael Greene: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathanael-Greene Henry Knox: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Knox Attention history nerds: Contra Dancing is modern-day 18th century dancing https://www.masterclass.com/articles/contra-dancing Strictly Ballroom: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105488/ "Mad" Anthony Wayne, Neighbor of the Greenes: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anthony-Wayne The invention of the cotton gin: https://www.britannica.com/technology/cotton-gin The Historic Charleston Foundation: https://www.historiccharleston.org Carin Bloom on Instagram: @living_herstory  Carin Bloom’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Living_Herstory Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden: https://books.google.com/books?id=-dguBgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=%22Interpreting+Our+Heritage%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s Carin Bloom’s Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/living_herstory Carin Bloom’s Email: [email protected] 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

Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by Historian Dr. Marcus P. Nevius to look into the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina and its role as a haven for self-emancipated enslaved people. We examine who settled in the inhospitable environment and how—using unconventional sources—individual stories of such freedom seekers can be revealed for us today. Everything you need to follow and learn more here: https://linktr.ee/2c4h_podcast Relevant Links: Marcus' book: City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820356426/city-of-refuge/ Members of the Great Dismal Swamp Company: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-01-02-0054-0002 Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America: https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/grandy/grandy.html  The Jamaican Maroons: https://nlj.gov.jm/history-notes/The%20Maroons%20edited%20final.htm  The Free State of Jones (Book): https://uncpress.org/book/9781469627052/the-free-state-of-jones-movie-edition/  The Free State of Jones (Movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124037/  Gugu Mbatha-Raw - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1813221/  Ira Berlin: https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/october-2018/ira-berlin-(1941–2018) Twitter: @Marcneev Marcus's linktree: https://linktr.ee/MarcusPNevius 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