Episodes

Jan. 26, 2026

Episode 23: The Liberation

With a rebellion underway in New England, the Continental Congress orders an invasion of Quebec, confident that Catholic French Canadians will rally to the Patriot standard, a mere fifteen years after Protestant British Americans helped to conquer the old colony of New France for their king. Featur…
Guests: Alexandra Montgomery, Ph.D. , Jeffers Lennox, Ph.D. , Rick Atkinson
Dec. 16, 2025

Episode 22: The Siege

Hours after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, rebel British Americans begin laying siege to Boston, trapping thousands of civilians and soldiers in town for months with dwindling supplies, compelling the British to make a...
Guests: Jim Ambuske , Rosemarie Zagarri, Ph.D. , Rick Atkinson
Nov. 24, 2025

Episode 21: The Vengeance

The long-simmering rivalry between Virginians and Pennsylvanians for control of the Ohio Country leads to the 1774 massacre of Soyechtowa James Logan’s family at Yellow Creek along the banks of the Ohio River, igniting a war ...
Guests: Christopher Pearl , Robert G. Parkinson
Oct. 27, 2025

Episode 20: The Rebellion

With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord. Fea...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D. , Katherine Carté, Ph.D. , Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Frank Cogliano, Ph.D. , Rick Atkinson
Sept. 22, 2025

Episode 19: The Gambit

With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.
Guests: Julie Flavell, Ph.D. , Mary Beth Norton, Ph.D. , Michael D. Hattem, Ph.D. , Frank Cogliano, Ph.D.
Aug. 25, 2025

Episode 18: The Resurrection

Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America. Featuring: Ka...
Guests: Katherine Carté, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Jeffers Lennox, Ph.D.
July 29, 2025

Episode 17: The Tyranny

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passes a series of coercive and intolerable acts to punish the tea destroyers and bring order to British America. Featuring: Benjamin Carp, James Fichter, and Mary Beth Norton. ...
Guests: Mary Beth Norton, Ph.D. , Benjamin Carp, Ph.D. , James R. Fichter, Ph.D.
June 30, 2025

Episode 16: The Tea

British Americans' unquenchable thirst for tea and a looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies in 1773.
Guests: Mary Beth Norton, Ph.D. , Benjamin Carp, Ph.D. , James R. Fichter, Ph.D. , Deepthi Murali, Ph.D.
May 31, 2025

Episode 15: The Heavens Fall

The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire.
Guests: Julie Flavell, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Christopher Brown, Ph.D. , Trevor Burnard, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Adam Xavier McNeil, Ph.D. , Chernoh Sesay, Jr., Ph.D. , Peter Walker, Ph.D. , Gillian Macdonald, Ph.D. , Craig Gallagher, Ph.D. , John Terry, Ph.D.
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.
Guests: Abby Chandler, Ph.D. , Marjoleine Kars, Ph.D. , Cynthia Kierner, Ph.D. , Nathan Schultz
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.
Guests: Serena Zabin, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Evan D. McCormick, Ph.D. , Adam Xavier McNeil, Ph.D.
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.
Guests: Zara Anishanslin, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Hayley Madl , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Kathryn Gehred , Beau Robbins , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D. , Rosemarie Zagarri, Ph.D. , Evan D. McCormick, Ph.D. , Jeanette Patrick , Alexandra Miller
Oct. 22, 2024

Episode 11: The Resistance

With the Stamp Act defeated, the Sons of Liberty in New York City celebrate by raising a Liberty Pole in tribute to George III, William Pitt, and Liberty, provoking a violent confrontation with British soldiers quartered in the city's barracks.
Guests: Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Shira Lurie, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Adam Smith, Ph.D. , Mills Kelly, Ph.D. , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D.
Sept. 13, 2024

Episode 10: The Stamp

In the mid-1760s, British fears that a new war with France was only a matter of time leads King George III and his ministers to draw up plans for a permanent army in North America, and a Stamp Tax on the colonies to pay for it, sparking massive...
Guests: Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Alexandra Montgomery, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , Beau Robbins , Abby Chandler, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Adam Smith, Ph.D. , Mills Kelly, Ph.D. , Cassandra Britt Farrell
July 27, 2024

Episode 9: The Sugar

In the 1760s, Jamaica and the islands of the British Caribbean were the crown jewels of Britain's American Empire. And as King George III's ministers searched for solutions to a vexing imperial puzzle and moved to a counter pernicious threat in the...
Guests: Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Trevor Burnard, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Beau Robbins , Brooke Newman, Ph.D. , Mary Draper, Ph.D. , Abby Chandler, Ph.D.
June 8, 2024

Episode 8: The Trade

At the dawn of a new era after the Seven Years’ War, British officials envision commerce and colonies as the key to British independence and its rising glory, but trade in commodities and manufactured goods comes at an awful price.
Guests: Hannah Knox Tucker, Ph.D. , Hannah Farber, Ph.D. , Zara Anishanslin, Ph.D. , Emma Hart, Ph.D. , Scott C. Miller, Ph.D. , Ann Smart Martin, Ph.D.
May 2, 2024

Episode 7: The Divide

With a blueprint in place for transforming British America into an empire of order, George III's government begins sending an army of cartographers to map North America, while diplomats in the colonies open negotiations with native nations to draw a...
Guests: Alexandra Montgomery, Ph.D. , S. Max Edelson, Ph.D. , Maeve Kane, Ph.D. , Beau Robbins , Luke Jensen-Jones , James Craggs
March 23, 2024

Episode 6: The Proclamation

Against the backdrop of Pontiac's War in North America, George III's ministers in London draw on lessons learned in colonial Nova Scotia to begin drafting a blueprint for transforming British America into an empire of order. Featuring: Fred Anderson,...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Alexandra Montgomery, Ph.D. , Matthew Dziennik, Ph.D. , S. Max Edelson, Ph.D. , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Beau Robbins
Jan. 31, 2024

Episode 5: The Uprising

As the British began to assert control over North America in the wake of the Seven Years' War, the actions of British American settlers and the messages of a native prophet convinced some Indigenous peoples throughout the Ohio Country and beyond that...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Maeve Kane, Ph.D. , George Ironstrack , Norman Rodger , Hayley Madl , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Loren Moulds , Angel-Luke O'Donnell , Kathryn Gehred , David McKenzie
Dec. 12, 2023

Episode 4: The Empire

Great Britain's conquest of New France in North America and its victory in the Seven Years' War inspired British subjects on both sides of the Atlantic to look forward to a future they could see but through a glass darkly, as they struggled to make...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. , S. Max Edelson, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Spencer McBride, Ph.D. , Nicholas Cole, Ph.D. , John Turner, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D.
Nov. 14, 2023

Episode 3: The Triumph

Following three years of stinging defeats in the Seven Years' War, the British begin to turn the tide against the French in North America in no small measure because Indigenous peoples decided the war should end.  Featuring: Fred Anderson, Christian...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Matthew Dziennik, Ph.D. , Serena Zabin, Ph.D. , Julie Flavell, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Emmanuel Dubois , Alexandre Rios-Bordes, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Michael Newton, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett
Oct. 18, 2023

Episode 2: The Nadir

Following the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British and French begin mobilizing for war and appoint commanders-in-chief to lead the war effort, only to clash with colonists over how power, authority, and honor should be used...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Katherine Carté, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Emmanuel Dubois , Alexandre Rios-Bordes, Ph.D. , Hayley Madl , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Spencer McBride, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Alexandra Krebs, Ph.D.
Sept. 25, 2023

Episode 1: The Balance

In the 1750s, tensions between the British, the French, and Indigenous peoples over control of the Ohio Country in North America lead to the outbreak of a global war with revolutionary consequences.  Featuring: Fred Anderson, Christian Ayne Crouch, Max Edelson, Patrick Griffin,...
Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , S. Max Edelson, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Maeve Kane, Ph.D. , George Ironstrack , Norman Rodger , Emmanuel Dubois , Alexandre Rios-Bordes, Ph.D.
Sept. 12, 2023

Season One Trailer: The Crisis

Season One of Worlds Turned Upside Down, "The Crisis," follows the stories of American colonists, Indigenous peoples, and Europeans as they grappled with the revolutionary consequences of Great Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)....
Guests: Serena Zabin, Ph.D. , Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Julie Flavell, Ph.D. , Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Shira Lurie, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Mary Beth Norton, Ph.D. , Maeve Kane, Ph.D.