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The Liberty & Slavery Podcast
History Podcasts
Interviews from the Emmy award winning documentary - Liberty & Slavery: The Paradox of America's Founding Fathers.
Location:
United States
Genres:
History Podcasts
Description:
Interviews from the Emmy award winning documentary - Liberty & Slavery: The Paradox of America's Founding Fathers.
Language:
English
Website:
https://libertyandslavery.com/
Episodes
Rick Starr Discusses The Founders and Independence Hall.
7/17/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Park Ranger Rick Starr in Independence Hall. Rick discusses the events that took place there, and the Founders who participated.
Duration:00:15:15
Robert Baker Explores the Thinking Behind the Founders
7/2/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas sits down with author, professor and historian H. Robert Baker to discuss the Founding Fathers and their complicated relationship with slavery. Baker explains the influences that shaped the thinking of the men that built America.
Duration:00:36:12
Rod Gragg Discusses Religion's Influence in Early America.
6/17/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Rod Gragg, author of Forged in Faith. Rod discusses the Puritans and Pilgrims seeking religious freedom in the New World, and the impact that the Judeo Christian viewpoint had on the founding documents.
Duration:01:23:19
Sara Georgini discusses the Adams Family
5/29/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Sara Georgini about John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Abigail Adams. Sara discusses the Adams prominent role in the founding of the country, and their relationship with slavery. Sara Georgini is an American historian, and series editor for The Papers of John Adams at the Adams Papers Editorial Project.
Duration:00:45:47
Mary V Thompson discusses George Washington
5/6/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Mary V. Thompson about George Washington. They discuss how Washington's views on slavery changed during his life and the complications he faced trying to free the slaves of Mount Vernon. Mary V. Thompson was a research historian at Mount Vernon, and is now retired and serves as Research Historian Emerita at Mount Vernon.
Duration:00:29:23
Carl Westmoreland discusses Thomas Jefferson and Slavery in Virginia
4/22/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews the late Carl Westmoreland about Jefferson's view on slavery and its role in the colonies. Carl Westmoreland was the Senior Historian at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Duration:00:38:36
Carter Hudgins Discusses Slavery at Drayton Hall Plantation
4/3/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Carter Hudgins, the President and CEO of Drayton Hall. Hudgens discusses slavery at Drayton Hall Plantation, and slavery's role in the economics of the Colonies.
Duration:00:27:03
David Eltis Discusses the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
3/25/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews David Eltis, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of History at Emory University and the co-developer of slavevoyages.org. Eltis discusses the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its impact on the Americas and the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Duration:00:43:33
Walter Brueggemann Discusses Slavery in the Bible
3/11/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews theologian Walter Brueggemann. Brueggemann offers an interpretation of slavery in the Bible, and discusses the Bibles influence on the Founding Fathers. Brueggemann is currently William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Duration:00:34:49
David Azerrad Discusses the Political Policies of the America's Founding Fathers
2/26/2024
Today's podcast features Hillsdale College's Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, David Azerrad. Azerrad explains the guiding principles of the Founders, especially in creating the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. He further explains the paradox of liberty and slavery as seen in the personal lives of the Founders. Azerrad was formerly the Director of the Kenneth Simon Center of Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation.
Duration:00:37:47
Caroline Keinath discusses John Adams
2/12/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Caroline Keinath at Piecefield about John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, and their impact on forming America.
Duration:00:46:29
Historian Christa Dierksheide discusses Thomas Jefferson
1/29/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Christa Dierksheide at Monticello about Thomas Jefferson and his role as a Founding Father and an owner of slaves.
Duration:00:47:12
Historian Sara Bon-Harper discusses James Monroe
1/15/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas sits down with Sara Bon-Harper, Executive Director of James Monroe’s Highland, to discuss many of the contributions of James Monroe. Monroe was the last Founding Father to serve as President, a two time Governor of Virginia, a US Senator, an ambassador to Britain and France, as well as Secretary of State. An accomplished soldier and statesman, Monroe is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine.
Duration:00:16:43
Historian Richard Beeman discusses the Paradox of Liberty and Slavery in the Founding Era of America
1/1/2024
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews historian Richard Beeman. Richard was the John Walsh Centennial Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also the director of the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies. Richard wrote several books, including "Plain Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution," and "Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor: Americans Choose Independence." This interview was conducted in Media, Pennsylvania in May 2014.
Duration:01:01:09
Joseph Ellis Discusses The Founding Fathers and Slavery
12/18/2023
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews Pulitzer Prize winning author, Joseph Ellis about America's Founding Fathers and slavery. Ellis argues that we should cease arguing about whether the Founders were heroes or villains, but instead grapple with them as flawed human beings who we can learn from because of their imperfections and what they did well.
Duration:00:40:09
Professor Eric Jackson discusses Colonial America, Slavery and The Founding Fathers
12/4/2023
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews professor Eric Jackson about Colonial America, Slavery and The Founding Fathers. Eric Jackson is a professor of American History at Northern Kentucky University with over 50 journal publications.
Duration:00:33:52
Historian Edward J. Larson discusses George Washington
11/6/2023
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews historian and author Edward J. Larson about George Washington's role as a respected leader of the American Revolution and his ownership of slaves at Mount Vernon.
Duration:00:43:50
An Interview with former Director of Education at James Madison’s Montpelier, Christian Cotz
10/23/2023
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews former Director of Education at James
Madison’s Montpelier, Christian Cotz. Christian discusses James
Madison's role in crafting the United States Constitution and his
ownership of slaves at his family's large Virginia plantation,
Montpelier.
Duration:00:32:33
An Interview with the 2006 Social Studies Teacher of the Year, India Meissel
10/9/2023
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews the 2006 Social Studies Teacher of the Year, India Meissel. She discusses European colonization of North America, the history of slavery in the New World before and after the American Revolution as well as the Founding Fathers' complicated relationship with slavery.
Duration:00:44:28
Historian Jon Kukla discusses Patrick Henry
9/25/2023
Director A. Troy Thomas interviews author and historian Jon Kukla about Patrick Henry. Perhaps best known for his "Liberty or Death" speech at St. John's Church, Patrick Henry was also an American founder who owned slaves. Jon Kukla discusses the nuances of this seeming contradiction.
Duration:00:58:40