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Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early Americ

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Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early Americ

195 Morgan Bengel, Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine

In 1705 a group of colonists in Simsbury, Connecticut founded a copper mine, which the...

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Bonus: Behind the Scenes of the Adams-Jefferson Letters

In 1959, the Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press published Lester J....

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193 Partisans: The Friendship and Rivalry of Adams and Jefferson

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Two drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, two...

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192 Brian Regal, The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil is a monster legend that originated in New Jersey’s early American past. How...

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191 Lisa Brooks, A New History of King Philip's War

King Philip’s War is an event that appears over and over again in books about colonial America....

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190 Jennifer Goloboy, Origins of the American Middle Class

As many as 70 percent of Americans consider themselves to be members of the middle class. But if...

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189 Sam White, The Little Ice Age

We’re living in a period of climate change. Our Earth has been getting warmer since the mid-19th...

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188 Terri Halperin, The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

The Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four laws enacted by the United States government in...

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187 Kenneth Cohen, Sport in Early America

Our present-day American culture is obsessed with sports. To cite just two pieces of evidence of...

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186 Max Edelson, The New Map of the British Empire

As a result of Great Britain’s victory in the Seven Years’ War, British North America expanded so...

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185 Joyce D. Goodfriend, Early New York City and its Culture

Who should determine our culture and the morals our society follows? Culture, or the...

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183 Douglas Bradburn, George Washington's Mount Vernon

George Washington played three very important public roles during his lifetime. He served as the...

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180 Kate Elizabeth Brown, Alexander Hamilton and the Making of American Law

The legacy of Alexander Hamilton tells us that he was Thomas Jefferson’s political rival, a man...

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Bonus: Listener Q&A About Religion in Early New England

Douglas Winiarski answers your questions about religion in early New England with details from...

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179 George Van Cleve, After the Revolution: Governance During the Critical Period

The Confederation period is one of the most neglected aspects of United States History. And yet,...

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178 Karoline Cook, Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America

In 1535, Spanish holdings in the Americas proved so great that the Spanish government created the...

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