In this episode, we discuss John Jay's return to New York. His negotiations with Diego de Gardoqui, and how the ramifications of the treaty served as ...

On Today's episode, we discuss one of the most shameful, and forgotten, acts in American History, the Gnadenhütten Massacre. Join us for the lengthy d...

In this episode, James discusses how the Cherokee and Chickamauga react to the creation of the State of Franklin. We also take a wider look at the fro...

On this week's episode, your host James Nelson takes you through the creation of the Lost State of Franklin. Follow me on Twitter @jk_nelson, or follo...

  This week we talk about John Sevier, one of the pioneers of frontier Tennessee and one of the heroes of the Battle of Kings Mountain.

People tend to think about the Revolutionary War in idealistic terms. It was a gentlemen’s war, fought with clearly delineated rules of war. That usua...

After the abrupt end of the meeting between the Cherokee Nation and Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company at Sycamore Shoals, War breaks out b...

This episode I discuss the events leading up to the Cherokee-American War, the conflict which tips off 20 years of conflict between settlers and Chero...

This week James takes a look at the Cherokee Nation, their history, and their origins. He also examines their relationships to early American settlers...

When people take a deep dive into the American Revolution, one  name languishes in obscurity. Was he a thief? A tory? Or was he something more? In thi...