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Williamsburg Revolutionary War Encampment

William & Mary lecturer Robyn Schroeder discusses the Williamsburg, Virginia, site where colonial troops built an encampment ahead of the 1781 battle of Yorktown during the Revolutionary War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Marion Orr "House of Diggs"

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  The History of the Space Program

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  How Martin Luther King Jr. Used Political Strategy

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  Blake Gilpin on Reconstruction-Era Supreme Court Cases That Led to Jim Cro…

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  Kentucky and Slavery: From Statehood to the Civil War

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  FEED DROP: America 250 Battle of Bunker Hill Commemoration

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  The Barbary Pirates and Early American Foreign Policy

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  Gunmaking & the Roots of Mass Production

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  How FDR Built a 12-Million-Strong Military: Robert Brigham on America’s WW…

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  FEEDDROP: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

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  Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Doubl…

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  The 1967 Six-Day War and America’s Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

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  FEED DROP: ABC David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hid…

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  The Mexican-American War: Causes, Consequences, and Legacy

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  How Constitutional Order Emerged From Crisis