The Historic Preservationist

Episoder

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  Episode. 1044. Black Death, Rumors and Arrival. 10.05.2026 24min

  With a proper understanding on how plagues spread, early individuals unknowingly helped propagate the pandemic.
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  Episode. 1043. Black Death, It’s Unlikely Use. 10.05.2026 11min

  At times the Black Death was used to weaponize the plagues, using dead victims to infect others.
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  Episode. 1042. Black Death, The Plagues That Comprise It. 10.05.2026 13min

  Black Death can be triggered or comprised of various plagues .
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  Episode. 1041. Black Death, The First Pandemics. 04.05.2026 11min

  Three major pandemics have rocked the globe, the Justinian Plague, The Black Death and The Bubonic Plague from China. Today modern travel makes plagues much easier to spread.
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  Episode. 1040. Black Death Introduction. 04.05.2026 5min

  The first great plague since the fall of the Roman Empire, fleas carried it killing a third of Europe.
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  Episode. 1039. The Industrial Revolution, Effects of the Transformation. 02.05.2026 38min

  From women’s rights to a quickening of everyday society, the industrial revolution created the modern world as we know it today.
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  Episode. 1038. Life in Colonial Times, Flax Culture and Spinning. 01.05.2026 28min

  Almost every female adult and child capable would use a spinning wheel to produce thread and fabric and then cream clothing for the family and the colonial military at the time of the revolution.
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  Episode. 1037. Life in Colonial Times, Meat and Drink. 01.05.2026 31min

  Colonists learned what they could eat and drink as time went on, spices , many root vegetables, apples and pears, ale and hard cider
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  Episode. 1035. Life in Colonial Times, Indian Corn. 01.05.2026 23min

  The native Americans schooled the early colonists down the coast how to grow, and what type of dishes to make with corn.
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  Episode. 1034. Life in Colonial Times, Food From Forrest and Sea. 28.04.2026 28min

  Early colonists arriving in the new world did not find riches in the earth such as metals, but riches of plenty food, roaming animals, nuts, tree sap, fields for crops and fish and shellfish in the sea and rivers.
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  Episode. 1033. Life in Colonial Times, Serving of Meals. 26.04.2026 41min

  This episode lays out the procedures of serving of meals, etiquette, accoutrements on the table and how all of this changed from the mid-16th - through the early twentieth century.
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  Episode. 1032. Life in Colonial Times, The Kitchen Fireside. 26.04.2026 33min

  This episode describes colonial; hearths, cooking utensils, heating and an early romance of where the center of colonial life existed in the home’s interior.
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  Episode. 1031. Life in Colonial Times, Colonial Lighting. 21.04.2026 25min

  From various forms of candle making materials, natural scents such as the Bayberry bush to accent candles, to oil and tallow, to various types of fire starters, night light in colonial times took time and skill to produce and was expensive.
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  Episode. 1030. Life in Colonial Times, Home Life. Part 2. 21.04.2026 22min

  Roof-lines and interior decorations proceed as the century went on.
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  Episode. 1029. Life in Colonial Times, Home Life, Part 1. 21.04.2026 22min

  From living in dug-out caves to thatched roof houses, early colonial settlers brought skill sets and certain styles from the home-lands.
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  Episode. 1028. Age of Enlightenment, Conclusion. 18.04.2026 3min

  The enlightenment solidified sound scientific methodology, peace between religions, separation between church and state, and a number of women who broke away from their domestic duties.
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  Episode. 1027. Age of Enlightenment, Mary Somerville. 18.04.2026 7min

  Somerville claimed out of traditional domestic roles in England, studying scientific experimentation she was the first woman accepted into the Royal Society.
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  Episode. 1026. Age of Enlightenment,Voltaire. 18.04.2026 8min

  Society had begun to realize that they had the capacity to engage in choices regarding the state and to enjoy personal liberties, which took the form philosophies of the enlightenment.
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  Episode. 1025. Age of Enlightenment, The American Revolution. 18.04.2026 6min

  The American Enlightenment farther supported the concept of the country as a republic.
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  Episode. 1024. Age of Enlightenment, Thomas Paine. 17.04.2026 6min

  Paine created a pamphlet Common Sense which helped nudge the colonists toward the war of independence. He also warned later of religious fanaticism, claiming its basis , the Bible, was a book of many lies, wickedness blasphemy.