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R2 Studios explores history through podcasts. We tell unexpected stories based on the latest research to connect listeners with the past.
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Worlds Turned Upside Down
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant
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Antisemitism, U.S.A.
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Finding Jane Austen
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The Green Tunnel
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Revolutions Reconsidered
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Consolation Prize
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May 5, 2025
Episode 14: The Corruption
Months after the Boston Massacre, British Americans calling themselves "Regulators" launch a rebellion in western North Carolina that threatens to engulf the colony in revolution and civil war.
April 21, 2025
Episode 59: The Scheme I Undertake with Chearfulness
Diane Ehrenpreis joins Kathryn Gehred to discuss a letter from Martha Jefferson to a Mrs. Madison dated August 8, 1780 in which Jefferson encourages women to join together and raise funds to support the Continental soldiers. This letter is one of...
March 26, 2025
Episode 58: Our Unnatural Enemies May Be Turned From Us
Dr. Emily Sneff joins Kathryn Gehred to discuss a letter from Polly Palmer to John Adams dated 4 August 1776, in which Palmer thanks Adams for sending her one of the earliest printings of the Declaration of Independence.
March 7, 2025
Episode 13: The Massacre
In response to rioting and protests over the Townshend Acts, the British deploy four regiments to Boston, leading to a deadly shooting on March 5, 1770, a massacre that wounds a family.
Feb. 25, 2025
Episode 57: Those Tumultuous Assemblies of Men
Dr. Cynthia Kierner joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss a 1778 letter from Richard Henry Lee to his sister Hannah Lee Corbin. In a lost letter, Hannah previously expressed her frustrations that widows are being taxed without representation. In this...
Jan. 28, 2025
Episode 56: The Most Dreadful Of All Enemies
Dr. Jacqueline Beatty joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss The Petition of Belinda from 1783 in which Belinda Sutton petitions The Massachusetts General Court for the funds left to her by her enslaver Isaac Royall after he fled the colonies during the...
Dec. 20, 2024
Episode 55: An Insurrection Was Hourly Expected
Ramin Ganeshram joins Kathryn Gehred to discuss excerpts from Janet Shaw’s Journal of a lady of quality; being the narrative of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776. Ganeshram and Gehred...
Dec. 18, 2024
Episode 12: The Conspiracy
In the wake of the Stamp Act Crisis, the British chart a new course for empire in North America by imposing taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, pitting British Americans against Parliament…and each other.
Dec. 6, 2024
Finding Jane Austen
You've heard of Jane Austen. She's in our movie theaters, our high school classrooms, even on the British pound, she's inspired more than 400 novel adaptations and probably more than a few of your favorite movies and series. You might even consider...
Nov. 26, 2024
Episode 54: I Am Frightened When I Look At Her
Mary Wigge joins Kathryn Gehred to discuss a letter from Lucy Flucker Knox to her husband General Henry Knox in which she describes how she spends her days during the Revolutionary War. Lucy, a wealthy Tory's daughter whose parents and siblings have...
Nov. 5, 2024
Bonus: A Humble Origin Story
In this bonus episode of Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant, Kathryn Gehred dives into the podcast's origin story. While working as an editor of the Papers of Martha Washington, Gehred became very familiar with how people wrote letters in the...
Oct. 29, 2024
Episode 53: By Being Almost Murdered
Dr. Maeve Kane joins Kathryn Gehred to explore Konwatsi'tsiaienni Molly Brant’s life during the American Revolution. Brant was a member of the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kane and Gerhred...
