The Era of Good Feelings was increasingly anything but for William Henry Harrison as he worked as a de facto veteran’s bureau in the House of Representatives and Congress struggled to answer the question of whether Missouri should enter the Union as a ...

Harrison concludes his final negotiations with Native Americans before being elected to Congress. In this episode, we discuss how the War of 1812 affected both the settlers and the Native Americans of the old Northwest, how Washington,

In collaboration with the History of the Ottoman Empire podcast, this episode examines the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s and 1840s including reform efforts initiated by Sultan Mahmud II, early US diplomatic interactions with the Ottoman Empire and the Mi...

Harrison gains the upper hand on British forces in the old Northwest and crosses the border into Canada to take the fight to them. However, political intrigue on the American side will impede military progress,

The War of 1812 begins in this episode of the Harrison Podcast, and we examine how Harrison found himself back in the Army and in charge of the military forces of the old Northwest as the British began to make inroads into US territory.

In honor of the 205th anniversary of the battle tomorrow, this episode is all about the battle that made Harrison famous – the Battle of Tippecanoe. We discuss the lead-up to the battle, what actually transpired,

We have a very special episode this week as we stage a debate between President Martin Van Buren and General William Henry Harrison in the 1840 presidential campaign. The back and forth gets heated at times,

Harrison begins his transition from the army into public service in this episode and finds love and a new home along the way. However, to avoid the danger of overly romanticizing the story and missing some key historical lessons,

Harrison takes a rather meandering course from college that leads him first to Richmond then to Philadelphia, through medical training to the army, before he finally marches off to the west where he studies the ways of war from two of the most prominen...

In this episode, the first in our comprehensive series about Harrison’s life, we follow the life of William Henry Harrison from his birth up until his enrollment at Hampden-Sydney Academy (now College) and explore how the Revolutionary War affected and...