Comments for Past & Present Podcasts

really interesting episode

https://podcast.history.org/2009/03/02/swordmaking-in-the-18th-century/#comment-127287

In reply to Kirk Martin. Martin, I am just learning the craft in preparation for the opening of a historical di...

https://podcast.history.org/2012/01/02/meet-the-cooper/#comment-127237

this really helped with a project!

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-127052

Hi Emily, You may not remember me, but for years we have enjoyed your performances while on vacation. we were also Greg's friends from NH. We have recently moved here and was happy to hear of you...

https://podcast.history.org/2006/02/27/emily-james-interprets-spirited-women/#comment-127032

this was very helpful

https://podcast.history.org/2012/09/03/meet-the-milliner/#comment-127021

I loved this podcast and Journeyman's story.

https://podcast.history.org/2005/10/31/printer/#comment-126935

Given the times and situations, the idea of a president needing a timeline of a term for presidency more likely than not was not even on their minds.

https://podcast.history.org/2012/11/05/the-bitter-history-of-elections/#comment-126826

I am searching for an Orphan named William Patterson born sometime in the 1700's. Court records identify him as an orphan, but I cannot find anything else on him. Who his father was, what church ...

https://podcast.history.org/2014/01/13/orphans-of-williamsburg/#comment-126447

Interesting, today's pumpkin pie isn't much different from a colonial pie and the pumpkin, once considered an important food is now nothing much more than an ornament.

https://podcast.history.org/2014/11/17/pumpkins-progress/#comment-126443

Really enjoyed this podcast.i have watched Turn at least 4 times and also a frequent visitor to CW. Very interesting information about how parts of Turn were filmed there. We stayed at the Coloni...

https://podcast.history.org/2016/04/28/the-black-petticoat-society-talks-colonial-williamsburg/#comment-126230

No one does Jefferson better than Bill!

https://podcast.history.org/2005/05/30/bill-barker-on-portraying-thomas-jefferson/#comment-125886

This really helped me with my help wanted ad project for school.

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-125860

I found Mary Milner Cary 1667-1700 daughter of Thomas and Mary Milner buried at Richneck Plantation Cemetery on the Findagrave site. The house no longer exists but there are photos of grave, as w...

https://podcast.history.org/2009/10/19/bruton-parish-churchyard/#comment-125676

In reply to Gail Oliver Palmer. I found Mary Milner Cary 1667-1700 daughter of Thomas and Mary Milner...

https://podcast.history.org/2009/10/19/bruton-parish-churchyard/#comment-125675

This absolutely helped me in my project.

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-122352

I can confirm that this helped me with my school project.

https://podcast.history.org/2012/01/30/town-gunsmith/#comment-122351

Just witnessed the remarkable and moving performance of From Freedom to Slave at the museum. My heart will never be the same. Hope Smith’ nonverbal expressions and body language almost negated ...

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/19/adopted-by-the-shawnee/#comment-122307

In reply to administrator. Is this picture worth anything? I just purchased one at goodwill. I thought it was cool & googl...

https://podcast.history.org/2005/10/31/printer/#comment-120987

The Use of Myth in History

https://podcast.history.org/2012/07/23/the-use-of-myth-in-history/#comment-120913

The Use of Myth in History

https://podcast.history.org/2012/07/23/the-use-of-myth-in-history/#comment-120891

The Use of Myth in History

https://podcast.history.org/2012/07/23/the-use-of-myth-in-history/#comment-120888

Fascinating podcast - thanks for that! Can you recommend any books or journal articles to read on the topic of silversmiths having financial problems during times of war? Also, have you published...

https://podcast.history.org/2012/10/22/meet-the-silversmith/#comment-120380

Hello! I would be most grateful if you could tell me how much a midwife could expect to earn in colonial Virginia around 1750.

https://podcast.history.org/2010/08/16/williamsburgs-midwife/#comment-120130

The Constitution for Kids podcast episode.

https://podcast.history.org/2013/12/09/the-constitution-for-kids/#comment-120115

it will teach me lots of things with my homwork

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-119653

Jaland: I chose shoemaker

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/26/meet-the-shoemaker/#comment-119645

Hello! I am Nevaeh i'm a student listening to this podcast and I want to know what the tools are for the trade.

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/26/meet-the-shoemaker/#comment-119644

the seat where the magisite sat had to look good they did not care about the other parts of the courtroom

https://podcast.history.org/2009/04/13/reconstructing-the-capitol/#comment-119584

i am going to be a milliner in my project to

https://podcast.history.org/2014/06/02/an-apprentice-at-the-millenary-shop/#comment-119577

I love it this is great for my homework research

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/26/meet-the-shoemaker/#comment-119316

i think i want to be a milliner now!! sounds fun!

https://podcast.history.org/2014/06/02/an-apprentice-at-the-millenary-shop/#comment-119307

hey i loved this thanks :)

https://podcast.history.org/2014/06/02/an-apprentice-at-the-millenary-shop/#comment-119306

thes is a good Podcast.

https://podcast.history.org/2011/12/26/great-hair/#comment-119289

i love this pod cast so much it helped me alot

https://podcast.history.org/2005/10/31/printer/#comment-119288

It helped with my reserch thx

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-119190

I want to learn more about Elizabeth. Would you please share your source documents. I tried to search her on my own but i only keep finding your podcast.

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/19/adopted-by-the-shawnee/#comment-119137

I would like to know the information you have on Mary Milner Cary. She was the daughter of Thomas Milner, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and she was the first wife of Miles Cary. She is burie...

https://podcast.history.org/2009/10/19/bruton-parish-churchyard/#comment-119047

my teacher made me watch this and i like it

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-118896

I think that silver is a very cool metal. It is very shiny, (I love shiny objects, lol.) And grey. I like it a lot.

https://podcast.history.org/2012/10/22/meet-the-silversmith/#comment-118895

In reply to Macy. I am going to be a Milliner to, and this website has almost everything th...

https://podcast.history.org/2014/06/02/an-apprentice-at-the-millenary-shop/#comment-118894

In reply to New Podcast: Kitchen Apprentice | Making History. who cooked the dinner was it the mothers or di...

https://podcast.history.org/2013/06/24/kitchen-apprentice/#comment-118752

I think this podcast is really good and informational. It shows people how everything even pumpkins have an amazing history/backstory. I look at pumpkins with a new point of view from this podcas...

https://podcast.history.org/2014/11/17/pumpkins-progress/#comment-118751

There was a slave aution reenactment in Colonial Williamsburg in 1994, but were actual slave auctions ever held there prior to 1865? If so, do you have any details as to when and where they were ...

https://podcast.history.org/2007/02/12/the-slave-trade-2/#comment-118678

In reply to Teacups in the Garden » Blog Archive » The Age of Enlightenment at Colonial Williamsburg. Hi! Thank ...

https://podcast.history.org/2008/06/16/natural-history/#comment-118046

In reply to Bailey Rose Robert. Bailey Rose Robert, Just about any fabric will burn when it touches an open flame. Tha...

https://podcast.history.org/2005/10/31/printer/#comment-117685

same its awesome

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-117576

with quaritine and everything listening to these are a blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://podcast.history.org/2012/01/30/town-gunsmith/#comment-117574

I loved this podcast so much. I just had one question though when he said there clothes can burn what fabric of clothes were they wearing that could burn them?

https://podcast.history.org/2005/10/31/printer/#comment-117566

are these people still alive

https://podcast.history.org/2006/08/21/a-fourth-generation-cabinetmaker/#comment-117559

Thanks guys I loved this podcast I used it for a homework assighnment in my school Thanks so much

https://podcast.history.org/2006/01/02/shoemaker/#comment-117557

I very much enjoyed this podcast But I do still have a question, no sence it's 2020 are people still working in Colonial Williamsburg

https://podcast.history.org/2011/12/26/great-hair/#comment-117552

Do people still work there? Please write back as soon as you can.

https://podcast.history.org/2005/08/22/silversmith/#comment-117530

where is Williamsburg

https://podcast.history.org/2005/08/22/silversmith/#comment-117529

I'm only a child but i would love to be one

https://podcast.history.org/2012/04/30/meet-the-carpenter/#comment-117479

Colonel James Innes was my first cousin, 5 times removed! I can't wait to visit again some day and see this reenactment!

https://podcast.history.org/2015/05/25/this-memorial-day-conversation-with-a-soldier/#comment-117436

i love it so much more info than the printer podcast

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-117411

Great podcast - I really enjoyed it!

https://podcast.history.org/2014/10/20/burial-shrouds/#comment-117054

i really enjoy the podcasts the wheelwright sounds like a good job for a colonial job i wanna be a wheelwright when i get older so i can bild wheel

https://podcast.history.org/2015/07/20/reinventing-the-wheel/#comment-117043

i really like the video you described um a wheelwright really well. i enjoyed the video and keep listening to it over and over again. colonial america is one of my favorite things to learn in sch...

https://podcast.history.org/2015/07/20/reinventing-the-wheel/#comment-117039

In reply to Leonard Koskodan. true it does take a long time to make bricks:)

https://podcast.history.org/2014/10/13/brick-by-brick/#comment-117012

I like how your videos are very educational to the young.

https://podcast.history.org/2008/10/27/witches-in-the-colonies/#comment-116999

In reply to administrator. They podcast interview was well done. You both spoke well! Here is a hist...

https://podcast.history.org/2015/03/16/the-george-washington-seal/#comment-115022

Interesting tidbit about Lady Dunmore. Interpreter Corinne Dame may be a distant cousin of mine since we share the same last name. My maiden name is Dame, from Georgia/Virginia/New Hampshire stoc...

https://podcast.history.org/2008/08/25/first-lady-of-virginia/#comment-114888

This was a great podcast Rachel

https://podcast.history.org/2016/05/16/the-return-of-the-cherokee/#comment-112815

This is the most helpful podcast I have seen yet!

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-112768

This really helped me understand who Benedict Arnold really was! Arnold is my favorite person in the war!

https://podcast.history.org/2006/11/27/benedict-arnold/#comment-112441

In reply to mitzel. Me too I’v Been reading all about this trade!! Amazing!

https://podcast.history.org/2012/01/02/meet-the-cooper/#comment-112404

Thanks a lot this will help me a lot

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the website is fun

https://podcast.history.org/2010/12/13/a-perfect-copy/#comment-110310

It has helped so much with my homework and school work! Thanks for the podcast!

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I'm happy to know that the shop is still thriving and evolving! Mistress Whitacre has been at the helm for a long time. I'm a little disappointed when I hear information like the podcast presents...

https://podcast.history.org/2014/05/12/sixty-years-of-millenary-history/#comment-109008

get well soon we are hoping to see you soon. You are our favorite interpreter

https://podcast.history.org/2005/08/29/interpreting-patrick-henry/#comment-108549

great podcast

https://podcast.history.org/2007/04/23/jamestown-unearthed/#comment-107471

awesome podcast

https://podcast.history.org/2014/10/06/reading-history-backwards/#comment-107177

Our family really loved Bryan Austin's portrayal of Madison. Very funny and endearing (his responses when asked about Hamilton were a riot!). Thanks for putting a face and a wit to the namesake o...

https://podcast.history.org/2014/02/17/being-james-madison/#comment-104290

Why did the CW Fife and Drum Corps use the Cowpens Flag in their Salute to the States, today July 4, 2018?

https://podcast.history.org/2015/06/08/the-sound-of-battle-cws-fifes-and-drums/#comment-102608

Never gets old. CW: please bring back the podcasts! All of us need to remember how it all started. Differing ideals, but the same vision. I always play this on 4th of July for my family.

https://podcast.history.org/2011/07/04/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness/#comment-102550

Why have you stopped you podcast. Past and Present.

https://podcast.history.org/2017/01/30/journey-to-redemption/#comment-101584

Over 100 umms. Better to read the transcript on this one. Otherwise very interesting.

https://podcast.history.org/2013/08/26/immortal-bricks-and-mortar/#comment-100429

Nice!

https://podcast.history.org/2012/01/30/town-gunsmith/#comment-99810

Oh my gosh it still works after 10 years!!! Thank you! :)

https://podcast.history.org/2008/05/19/for-what-ails-you/#comment-99458

American history, but also have very specific podcasts, like one devoted to organized pianos. “The Organized Piano” specifically describes the piano belonging to the Colonial Williamsburg Fo...

https://podcast.history.org/2016/09/26/the-organized-piano/#comment-99452

In reply to Briana. we did love it

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In reply to SriJiya. it helped us with our project too

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it was good for the report very helpful but cool because i did not know there are still blacksmiths I think its kind of weird that they call there shop smithy but its cool also do they name the s...

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-99444

In reply to SriJiya. great history on blacksmiths

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-99285

thanks for this site

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-99284

great history

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it was boring

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/26/meet-the-shoemaker/#comment-99248

In reply to Ricky Roberts. oh

https://podcast.history.org/2016/06/20/founding-feuds/#comment-99242

this will help massivley

https://podcast.history.org/2011/09/19/williamsburgs-blacksmith/#comment-99236

I learn so many interesting facts about the shoemaker the shoemaker makes so many interesting shoes and I liked the podcast and helped me do my report. Thank you

https://podcast.history.org/2012/03/26/meet-the-shoemaker/#comment-98830

Need more info on how to be a milliner, I'm doing a project on one and need steps on how to do what a milliner does

https://podcast.history.org/2012/09/03/meet-the-milliner/#comment-98816

Please tell more about Hannah Powell and Nancy Powell.

https://podcast.history.org/2013/09/03/meet-the-powells/#comment-98576

Good story we love it.

https://podcast.history.org/2005/10/31/printer/#comment-98574

seeking info on Mr Carroll who was an instructor for Colonial Williamsburg, Va. I came along with the W&M Queen's Guard in the early 1970's and as I remember just after his period as an instructo...

https://podcast.history.org/2013/05/13/fifes-and-drums-the-instruments/#comment-97480

I think that this podcast is very interesting because it is easy to access outside of school and because of that you can kind of be your own teacher and work at your own pace and take your time a...

https://podcast.history.org/2007/09/03/carriages-carts-and-wagons/#comment-97135

Well I have never heard that story. Can you share more?

https://podcast.history.org/2014/03/10/meeting-mrs-jefferson/#comment-96997

Would love to go to museum can you give me address

https://podcast.history.org/2015/01/19/george-washingtons-wallet/#comment-96681

What does a cooper's house/shop look like?

https://podcast.history.org/2012/01/02/meet-the-cooper/#comment-96512