Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share ARP371 Creating Washington, DC
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
ARP371 Creating Washington, DC
President Washington hires close friends to make the land deals necessary to establishing the new federal city on the Potomac River. He also personally selects French immigrant Pierre L'Enfant as the city planner.
This episode's, blog entry, at blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more resources related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Washington: The Making of the American Capital, by Fergus Bordewich.
Online Recommendation of the Week: A History of the National Capital, Vol. 1: 1790-1814, by W.B. Bryan: https://archive.org/details/historyofnationa0001wilh
Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy
ARP T-shirts and other merch: https://merch.amrevpodcast.com
Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com
Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271
Follow the podcast on X @AmRevPodcast
Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast
or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
View all episodes
By Michael Troy
4.8
989989 ratings
President Washington hires close friends to make the land deals necessary to establishing the new federal city on the Potomac River. He also personally selects French immigrant Pierre L'Enfant as the city planner.
This episode's, blog entry, at blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as more resources related to this week's episode.
Book Recommendation of the Week: Washington: The Making of the American Capital, by Fergus Bordewich.
Online Recommendation of the Week: A History of the National Capital, Vol. 1: 1790-1814, by W.B. Bryan: https://archive.org/details/historyofnationa0001wilh
Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy
ARP T-shirts and other merch: https://merch.amrevpodcast.com
Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com
Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271
Follow the podcast on X @AmRevPodcast
Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast
or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More shows like American Revolution Podcast
View all
The History of WWII Podcast
3,974 Listeners
The Civil War & Reconstruction
4,715 Listeners
The Ancient World
1,834 Listeners
Ben Franklin's World
1,582 Listeners
The History of China
1,100 Listeners
The History of Egypt
1,852 Listeners
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
1,143 Listeners
The Pirate History Podcast
1,545 Listeners
The Explorers Podcast
1,525 Listeners
Historical Blindness
842 Listeners
Queens Podcast
1,409 Listeners
This American President
778 Listeners
The Age of Napoleon Podcast
2,075 Listeners
History Unplugged Podcast
4,052 Listeners
History That Doesn't Suck
6,103 Listeners
American History Tellers
19,276 Listeners
Ancient History Fangirl
438 Listeners
Dressed: The History of Fashion
1,508 Listeners
The Box of Oddities
2,881 Listeners
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
370 Listeners
Addressing Gettysburg
417 Listeners
Plodding Through The Presidents
354 Listeners
History of the Second World War
583 Listeners
Key Battles of American History
919 Listeners
Art of History
318 Listeners
History Daily
2,124 Listeners
History of Everything
697 Listeners
American History Hit
1,564 Listeners
Face-Off: The U.S. vs China
164 Listeners
The Historian's Table
111 Listeners