Anne Fertig, Ph.D.
Anne Fertig is the Digital Projects Editor at the Center for Digital History at the George Washington Presidential Library and the lead producer of the George Washington Podcast Network. A trained literary and book historian, Dr. Fertig completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. In addition to her work at the George Washington Podcast Network, she is the founder and former co-director of Jane Austen & Co.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...