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APUSH for All is a history podcast designed for students, history enthusiasts, and anyone eager to understand the past’s impact on today.
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The Messy Making of the Declaration (opens the original)
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The Declaration of Independence wasn’t born in a single heroic moment, it was argued over, rewritten, printed, carried, and nearly lost. In this episode, we follow the messy story behind America’s founding document, from Caesar Rodney’s midnight ride and Jefferson’s heavily edited draft to Franklin’s famous revision, Congress’s compromises, and the printers who spread the words across the colonies. We’ll also look at the myths surrounding July 4, the signing, and the parchment itself, tracing ho
Bacon’s Rebellion: The Rebel, the Governor, and the Burning of Jamestown (opens the original)
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In 1676, Virginia nearly tore itself apart. At the center were Governor William Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon, two wealthy men whose feud exploded into armed rebellion, frontier war, and the burning of Jamestown. But Bacon’s Rebellion was about far more than one political rivalry. Beneath it were struggles over land, Native resistance, tobacco, indentured servitude, political power, and a growing population of frustrated colonists. The rebellion ultimately failed, but its aftermath helped reshape
The Starving Time: Jamestown at the Edge of Extinction (opens the original)
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Jamestown is remembered as the first permanent English settlement in North America, but its survival was anything but certain. Founded in 1607 in pursuit of profit, the colony quickly faced disease, hunger, poor leadership, environmental disaster, and worsening conflict with the Powhatan people. By the winter of 1609–1610, conditions became so desperate that colonists ate horses, rats, leather, and even the dead. Only about sixty survived. In this episode, we trace Jamestown from hopeful experim
Cahokia, Part II: The City That Vanished Twice (opens the original)
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In Part Two of our look at Cahokia, we turn from the city’s rise to its decline—and to the myths that followed. We examine the major explanations archaeologists have proposed, including flooding, drought, disease, warfare, environmental stress, and political breakdown, while asking why no single cause fully explains what happened. More importantly, we explore how Cahokia’s people adapted, moved, and continued beyond the city’s collapse. Then we trace Cahokia’s second disappearance: the destructi
Cahokia, Part I: The Rise of America’s Forgotten Metropolis (opens the original)
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Centuries before Jamestown or Plymouth, a massive Indigenous city rose from the Mississippi River floodplain just east of present-day St. Louis. Cahokia was home to towering earthen mounds, vast public plazas, long-distance trade, immigrant communities, religious monuments, and leaders capable of organizing enormous amounts of labor. In this episode, we explore how Cahokia grew so rapidly around 1050, what daily life looked like at its height, and how its political and religious power reached fa
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