To the Roots - Lewis & Clark

To the Roots - Lewis & Clark A podcast following Lewis and Clark through American history and memory. New episodes daily.

After a bit of a delay, Episode 33, on William Clark's years sorting out his brother's finances, is finally out wherever...
08/13/2024

After a bit of a delay, Episode 33, on William Clark's years sorting out his brother's finances, is finally out wherever you get podcasts!
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[1] Bazadone, Laurent vs. George Rogers Clark - Item 1a deposition / https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ving/id/1225
[2] Louisville Winter Woods George Rodgers Clark Park by Gerry Furgason
[3] Map of Illinois Country by Thomas Hutchins (1798)
[4] George Rogers Clark on His Way to Kaskaskia by Howard Pyle
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After some delays (and an early day at work), Episode 32 – on Lewis's wanderings between Clark's retirement and serving ...
07/23/2024

After some delays (and an early day at work), Episode 32 – on Lewis's wanderings between Clark's retirement and serving as Jefferson's personal secretary – is out now! Listen everywhere!
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[1] Map of Fort Detroit and environs, 1761–1763
[2] View of the City of Pittsburgh in 1817 by Mrs. E. C. Gibson & William Coventry Wall
[3] Masonic apron. Courtesy, Grand Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Montana, Helena
[4] Fort Pickering, Chickasaw Bluffs (today's Memphis, TN)
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Episode 31 is available everywhere you listen to podcasts. This week we talk about the Greenville treaty and Lewis's arr...
07/09/2024

Episode 31 is available everywhere you listen to podcasts. This week we talk about the Greenville treaty and Lewis's arrival and subsequent meeting with Clark.
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[1] Photographic reproduction of a drawing of Fort Greenville (OH Memory)
[2] “Painting of Indian Treaty of Greenville,” oil on canvas, 1795 (Chicago History Museum)
[3] "Mihšihkinaahkwa" (2019) by Julie Olds (https://julieolds.com/)
[4] "The Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville, 1795" (1945) by Howard Chandler Christy
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Episode 30 is available wherever you get podcasts. This week we're mostly with William this episode, as we near Fallen T...
07/03/2024

Episode 30 is available wherever you get podcasts. This week we're mostly with William this episode, as we near Fallen Timbers and Greenville… have a listen

New YouTube edition of the podcast is available today – Episode 19 covers the Jefferson Administration, introducing you ...
06/19/2024

New YouTube edition of the podcast is available today – Episode 19 covers the Jefferson Administration, introducing you to the players that will feature through the next few Mile Markers. Come watch and subscribe! https://youtu.be/YL24pdEllS4

Episode 29 is out now – everywhere you get podcasts! Follow our links! We talk George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, th...
06/15/2024

Episode 29 is out now – everywhere you get podcasts! Follow our links! We talk George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, the Whiskey Rebellion, Lewis on the Monongahela, and touch on the fate of John Hardin
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[1] gototheroots.substack.com
[2] Rebels Tarring and Feathering a Tax Collector during Whiskey Rebellion, Western Pennsylvania, 1794. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via G
[3] Dr. Joseph Strong's sketch map of Legion Ville. Dr. Strong's perspective is facing west towards the Ohio River, which runs due north in this location. Sketch courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Collection of Early Americana. Strong-Cogswell Correspondence, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
[4] The Whiskey Rebellion / Attributed to Frederick Kemmelmeyer - Metropolitan Museum of Art / Wikimedia
[5] This political cartoon of the era satirizes the Democratic-Republican societies as advocates of mob rule. (Library Company of Philadelphia)
[6] Fort Cumberland 1755 by Todd Price

New YouTube episode is out this morning – on the Election of 1800. Come have a watch and follow for more: https://youtu....
06/12/2024

New YouTube episode is out this morning – on the Election of 1800. Come have a watch and follow for more: https://youtu.be/JfFUvNbq3XM

Episode 28 – 'The general idea is that the army is the school of debauchery’ – is out now! We touch on William Clark's e...
06/08/2024

Episode 28 – 'The general idea is that the army is the school of debauchery’ – is out now! We touch on William Clark's early years in the militia and his avoiding the fates of Hardin, Harmar and St. Clair as well as the start of the Whiskey Rebellion.

Episode 26 titled 'People are Runing Mad for Kentucky hereabouts’ is out today. We talk a bit about Georgia and Kentucky...
05/25/2024

Episode 26 titled 'People are Runing Mad for Kentucky hereabouts’ is out today. We talk a bit about Georgia and Kentucky.

On the Revolution in Virginia.
05/20/2024

On the Revolution in Virginia.

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