Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early Americ

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Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early Americ

360 Kyera Singleton, Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts

Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States....

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359 Jen Manion, Trans-ing Gender in Early America

“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a...

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358 Charles Tingley, St. Augustine & Early Florida

For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory....

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357 Eric Jay Dolin, Privateering in the American Revolution

How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with...

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356 Paul Peucker, The Moravian Church in North America

In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester,...

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355 Misha Ewen, The Virginia Venture

On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a...

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254 John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl's Tale

History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and...

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353 Brooke Bauer, Women and the Making of Catawba Identity

How did Indigenous people adapt to and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European...

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352 Matthew Skic, James Forten and the Making of the United States

People of African descent have made great contributions to the United States and its history....

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351 Nicole Maskiell, Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland

African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and...

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350 Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Before the American Revolution became a war and a fight for independence, the Revolution was a...

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349 Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Women Behind Benjamin Franklin

There are a lot of books about Benjamin Franklin. They tell us about his youth and...

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348 Ricardo Herrera, Valley Forge

On December 19, 1777, George Washington marched his Continental Army into its winter encampment...

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Bonus: Craft in Early America

Thank you for being a subscriber! How did early Americans create all of the the things they...

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347 Jon Beebe, African and African American Music

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of African and African American music to the United...

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346 Billy Coleman, Music and Politics in the Early United States

How did everyday Americans in the early United States use and enjoy music? How did they create...

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345 Glenda Goodman, Amateur Musicians in the Early United States

Our study of music in Early America continues with this third episode in our five-episode series....

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344 David Hildebrand, Music in British North America

Our 5-episode series about music in Early America continues with this second episode that seeks...

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343 Chad Hamill, Music and Song in Native North America

What was music like in Early America? How did different early Americans—Native Americans, African...

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342 Elizabeth Ellis, The Great Power of Small Native Nations

Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French...

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