When the United States began to establish official commercial relations with Tahiti, the government and the sailors who visited there thought that the U.S. consuls
Manifest Destiny is a term you hear a lot when you’re learning about the history of the United States in the nineteenth century. But what
In this second installment of our summer series on food and consuls, we shift our gaze to look at food ways from the bottom-up. Producers
In this bonus episode, we look back on the stories from season one with an eye for food. Alongside a cast of guest taste-testers, producers
We’ve been to Mexico a few times this season, but we promised in the first episode that we’d return one last time, to talk about
In Episode 11, we explore the complicated, and sometimes tragic, life of Richard Greener, the first Black consul to a predominantly white post. Before Greener
In this bonus episode, we learn about the much more recent history of women in the consular service, as Abby interviews Maura Harty, a career
In today’s episode, we take a look at some people connected to the consular service who are worthy of notice: the women. We’re telling the
James Leander Cathcart and Richard O’Brien were uniquely suited to their jobs, from one point of view: they had spent a lot of time in
In this episode, we venture into the tragic story of the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique. Consul, Thomas Prentis
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