Colonial history of the United States

Welcome to Examining the Past, a history podcast.

This is season four, Colonial America.

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith.

I've been teaching history at the university level since two thousand and four.

In fact, most aren't Christians, even Christians, and then, uh, Native Americans, and, and they're the same way.

They're not being converted really, no real attempts to conversion, a- and so they're continuing with their, uh, traditional religious beliefs.

There are other problems though in the eighteenth century, uh, at least in colonial America.

There are lots of Catholics in America, both the Spanish, uh, abroad, but also English Catholics, uh, and then German Catholics who begin migrating to the colonies as well.

Welcome to Examining the Past, a history podcast.

This is season four, Colonial America.

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith.

I've been teaching history at the university level since 2004.

This podcast is an extension of the classes that I teach.

The first season covered a survey of American history.

The second season covered a class I teach called Invasions of America: First Contact in the New World, and the third the-- season covered my class Piracy in the Americas.

Future seasons will include topics like the American Revolution, World History from 1500 to the present, uh, Global History of Sport, Georgia History, and various more specific topics in sports history, like a history of baseball.

Welcome to Examining the Past, a history podcast.

This is Season 4, Colonial America.

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith.

I've been teaching history at the university level since 2004.

This is Season 4,

Colonial America.

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith.

I've been teaching history at the university level since 2004.

That meant also, though, a part of this legislation was a contingent that anybody at sea, sailors who resist pirate attacks, would be rewarded directly by the crown.

They would receive a percentage of the cargo of that ship if it was saved from the pirate attack.

This new act provided legislative machinery for the governments in colonial America to do something about this.

But it wouldn't result in immediately followed by a spate of executions.

Part I.

The Colonial Period.

Preface.

As things now stand, the course of instruction in American history in our public schools embraces three distinct treatments of the subject.

In fact, the migration became so large that German princes were frightened at the loss of so many subjects, and England was alarmed by the influx of foreigners into her overseas dominions.

Yet nothing could stop the movement.

By the end of the colonial period, the number of Germans had risen to more than two hundred thousand.

The majority of them were Protestants from the Rhine region and South Germany.

Welcome to Examining the Past, a history podcast.

This is Season 4, Colonial America.

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith.

I've been teaching history at the university level since 2004.

Welcome to Examining the Past, a history podcast.

This is season four, Colonial America.

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith.

I've been teaching history at the university level since 2004.

So how do those two work together? And what do you want viewers to take away from From Subjects to Citizens?

This is a completion of the arc of the story of the Americans, their origins, their founding that began with Colonial America last fall, which was a kind of Thanksgiving course on the pilgrims and the colonies.

Revolutionary America From Subjects to Citizens is a six-part documentary series.

There's six words in the title and subtitle, so we tried to...

Make that make that clear.

Completes that story.

It explains it picks up where colonial America left off and it concludes with the ratification of the Constitution and the first instance of the Constitution working.

And that's I'm not going to spoil anything.