What Was Canada Up To During The American Revolution? with Professor Jeffers Lennox

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

English - May 05, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - ★★★★★ - 18.8K ratings
Society & Culture Science business interview comedy news culture science health funny interviews women Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: How Much Do We ♥ Arlo? an Arlo The Alligator Boy Roundtable

Next Episode: How Did You Develop Such Amazing Taste? with Sohla El-Waylly

This week on Getting Curious, things are looking up: to Canada! Professor Jeffers Lennox joins Jonathan to discuss early Canadian history, including British, French, and Indigenous relations in northeastern North America; Canada’s role in the American Revolution; Canada’s confederation story; and what the deal actually was with Benedict Arnold.

Jeffers Lennox is an associate professor of History at Wesleyan University. His current book project is North of America: British Provinces, the Revolution, and Creating the United States (under contract, Yale University Press).

You can follow Jeffers on Twitter @jefferslennox, and keep up with his work at www.jefferslennox.com.

Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN.

Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com.

Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com.

Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com.

Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices