American Mantle

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Publisher

American Mantle

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 May 2025

Latest episode

18 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

18 of 95 episodes have a transcript.

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   18 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   (Malleum) Great Americans: Hannah Duston—Valiant Avenger of Colonial America

   Host [Host Name] explores the brutal story of Hannah Duston, a colonial woman who fiercely avenged her captivity by scalping her captors.

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   18 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   (Korah) Great Americans: John Colter's Run and the Duty of Courage and Endurance

   Host Will Fitzwilliam explores John Colter's courageous frontier journey, highlighting the virtue of endurance in the face of overwhelming odds.

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   18 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   (Ketcham) Great Americans: Robert Lewis Dabney—Hereditarian Prophet of Logic and Fire

   Host Andrew Ketcham explores the life and legacy of Robert Lewis Dabney, a foundational figure in American Presbyterianism and a prophet of logic and fire.

Inside a recent episode

(Malleum) Great Americans: Hannah Duston—Valiant Avenger of Colonial America

Published 18 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Off and on, American states offered such bounties on Indian scalps until 1863. The bounty on Indian scalps in Massachusetts had been temporarily repealed a few months prior to Hannah Dustin's captivity. However, her husband appealed to the court for compensation regardless, stating that the wife of ye petitioner, with one Mary Neff, hath in her late captivity among the barbarous Indians been disposed and assisted by heaven to do an extraordinary action in the just slaughter of so many of the barbarians, as would by the law of the province, which, only a few months ago, have entitled the actors unto considerable recompense from the public, that though the want of that good law warrants no claims to any such consideration from the public, yet your petitioner humbly asserts that the merit of the action still remains the same, and it seems a matter of universal desire through the whole province that it should not pass unrecompensed. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

30 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

36 ratings

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