Way back in 1848, a tall, lanky one-term Rep from Illinois came up to New England to stump for the Whig Candidate, Zachary Taylor. Twelve years later, Abraham Lincoln returned, this time to stump for himself!

Whenever The Rail Splitter stood up to speak, Eastern audiences were horrified by his tall, ungainly appearance, along with his high-pitched Western accent: a crude combination of Jed Clampett and Frankenstein! But once Abe got rolling, he soon had'm mesmerized. Join Scott, Tom and James and listen now as we disect this zany lecture (or should we say "Lec-tchuh") by acclaimed author, Thomas Turner.

Was it merely good luck, or divine providence, as the soldiers believed? Time after time during The War of Independece, the colonials were saved by the weather. Sometimes it was blinding fog, other times the right snow or thaw, yet when their backs were against the wall, in almost every case The Continental Army found precisely what it needed to survive and win. Join Tom, Scott, Karen, and our guest John Horrigan (the nation's leading expert on how weather affects history) as we explore this unique perspective. Listen now!

1789,: Philadelphia, Independence Hall. The Founders meet again. This time in secret. Only five years after the war of independence, court houses were being burned in Virginia. In Massachusetts, Daniel Shays led a debtors rebellion. The government under the Articles of Confedereation and Perpetual Union had degenerated to a union in chaos! Most Founders realized that stronger central power was now in order. But how could they enact it and stay true to the principals of liberty? Listen now to find out!

"Look it up!" The infernal cry of generations of parents and teachers, demanding that children  master the spelling and meaning of difficult words. All of us were forced to learn about Noah Webster by being sent to his dictionary, but just exactly who was this revolutionary wordsmith of early America? And what was he trying to accomplish, respelling words and adding new ones to the lexicon of the young republic, words like "Americanism"? 

Find out in this gripping episode as we journey to his boyhood home in Hartford, Connecticutt, and talk to a young lady who changes into the garb of an early American girl for us, to give us a tour Noah Webster's life and times at his haunting ancestral home.

When the Pilgrims first stepped off the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock, and breathed the fresh, free air of The New World, were they already a different brand of Brit? Were these early Puritans of The Massachusetts Bay Colony too righteous, too industrious, or just too darn bumptious to bow down and be good subjects? Click now to find out how the early Colonial Assemblies would pass thier own laws and get around British Parliament!