My podcast was originally designed help my AP World History students with their 2020 exam; however, I’m using this podcast as a teaching tool for all my students in American Government, APUSH & Women’s Studies.

Details issues of deforestation, child labor, women's suffrage & food safety

Post Civil War racial issues, Plessy v Ferguson, NAACP

Details the experience of immigrants coming to the United States in the late 1800s

Pages 214-225

Pages 207-214 of Chapter 9

Goes over the positive and negative impacts of large scale immigration in the late 1800s

Basic concepts around how humans give meaning to things that don't have meaning without them

Audio file of chapter 9 from After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection

Outlines the competition between France, Spain, England and the Netherlands in North America during the 1500s

Brief overview of the early civilizations in north and south America before European contact

Brief overview of change from farming to factory system in the US between 1865 & 1910

Focus on the era after the Civil War & the rise of the KKK

Reviews the beginning of the war the strengths of the Union/North and the Confederacy/South and why the Union won

Goes over the 12 documents of the causes of the Civil War DBQ in chronological order

Goes over the timeline of the transcontinental railroad & the impact on the United States

Details the impact of the discovery of gold in northern California on both the United States and the world

Details the rise of manifest destiny and the struggle of having some slave states and some free states

Details the requirements for both senators and representatives and how they are allocated to each state based on population.

Details how Congress works along with Termanology surrounding Congress and how they do their jobs.

Overview of the first constitution put in place when the declaration of independence was written and why it eventually failed.

Details the events that lead from the founding of the colonies under British rule to the declaration of independence in 1776

Episode details the concepts of limited, ordered, and representative government along with details around the Magna Carta, Petition of Right, and the English Bill of Rights

Goes over the five basic concepts of democracy and the responsibility of citizens in that democracy

Goes into the detail of why a government exists, along with the powers of the government, 7 different types of government & 4 theories around government

Details around the critical weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and a description of the fight to get the Constitution ratified in 1789

Details the beginnings of US Constitution, effects of French & Indian War, lead up to Revolution key battles.

Provides a description of each of the amendments along with some history of the amendment in regards to why it was passed

Outlines the 6 main principles of the Constitution addressed in Articles 1, 2 & 3

Also known as the Seven Years War, tracks the effect on the relationship between the British and its American colonies both during and after the war.

From After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle 6th Edition

From After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle 6th Edition

From After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle 6th Edition

From After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle 6th Edition

Episode goes over how the middle and New England colonies are making money and the establishment of Pennsylvania with its unique population of Quakers

Addresses the basis of income in the southern colonies and the disagreements around religious freedom in the northern colonies

Discusses causes and effects of the advent of the factory system and changes in communication and travel

Focus on the takeover of Africa after the Destabilization effects of the slave trade

Focus on the connection between the American and French revolutions and the other revolutions that happen later in Latin America

Discusses the impact of the slave trade on the continent of Africa and why it was done

Focus on impact of Columbian exchange and Atlantic slave trade in North and South America

Continues overview of the effects of overseas expansion during the beginning of the Modern Era

Discusses the effects of expansion by Europeans into the Americas and the influx of money

Goes over the beginning of change in the Christian church around indulgences and the complaints of Martin Luther

Episode gives descriptor of Portuguese involvement with the expansion of overseas trade in the Indian Ocean network

Goes over transition from Premodern Era to Modern Era with early exploration, the Colombian Exchange & Atlantic Slave trade.