Katherine Carté, Ph.D.

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Kate Carté is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History (UNC, 2021), which received the Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History. She is currently engaged in research on women's religion in the revolutionary-era Lower South.

Oct. 27, 2025

Episode 20: The Rebellion

With tensions mounting in British America over Parliament’s Coercive Acts, colonists begin losing faith in King George III, while British soldiers march out of Boston to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington and Concord. Fea...
Aug. 25, 2025

Episode 18: The Resurrection

Fourteen years after British forces conquered New France during the Seven Years’ War, Parliament’s passage of the Quebec Act in 1774 resurrects old fears of French Catholic tyranny in Protestant British America. Featuring: Ka...
Oct. 18, 2023

Episode 2: The Nadir

Following the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British and French begin mobilizing for war and appoint commanders-in-chief to lead the war effort, only to clash with colonists over how power, authority, and honor should be used...