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Ben Franklin's World

By: Liz Covart
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  • Ben Franklin’s World is an award-winning podcast about early American history. It is a show for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world. Each episode features a conversation with a historian who helps us shed light on important people and events in early American history. It is produced by Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios.
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  • 382 Hessians in the American Revolutionary War

    382 Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
    Apr 16 2024
    Within the Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States present twenty-seven grievances against King George III as they declare their reasons for why the thirteen British North American colonies sought their independence from Great Britain. Their twenty-fifth grievance declares that King George III “is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat [sic] the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun.” What do we know about the “Armies of foreign Mercenaries” King George III sent to his rebellious American colonies? Friederike Baer, an Associate Professor of History at Penn State Abbington College, joins us to explore the lives and wartime experiences of the 30,000 German soldiers the British Crown hired and dispatched to North America during the American War for Independence. Frederike is the author of the award-winning book Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/382 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Complementary Episodes Episode 046: Whirlwind: The American Revolution & the War That Won It Episode 048: Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives During the War for Independence Episode 081: After YorktownEpisode 144: The Common CauseEpisode 147: British Soldiers, American War Episode 157: The Revolution’s African American SoldiersEpisode 252: The Highland Soldier in North AmericaEpisode 375: Misinformation Nation Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter
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    54 mins
  • 381 Texas in the Spanish Empire

    381 Texas in the Spanish Empire
    Apr 2 2024

    The vast and varied landscapes of Texas loom large in our American imaginations. As does Texas culture with its BBQ, cowboys, and larger-than-life personality. But before Texas was a place that embraced ranching, space flight, and country music, Texas was a place with rich and vibrant Indigenous cultures and traditions and with Spanish and Mexican cultures and traditions.

    Martha Menchaca, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, is a scholar of Texas history and United States-Mexican culture. She joins us to explore the Spanish and Mexican origins of Texas with details from her book, The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality.

    Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/381



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    • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


    Complementary Episodes

    • Episode 037: Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
    • Episode 115: Andrew Torget, The Early American History of Texas
    • Episode 178, Karoline Cook, Muslims & Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
    • Episode 241: Molly Warsh, Pearls & the Nature of the Spanish Empire
    • Episode 334, Brandon Bayne, Missions and Mission Building in New Spain
    • Episode 358: Charles Tingley, St Augustine and Early Florida
    • Episode 371: Estevan Rael-Gálvez, An Archive of Indigenous Slavery


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 380 The Tory's Wife

    380 The Tory's Wife
    Mar 19 2024

    The American Revolution was a movement that divided British Americans. Americans did not universally agree on the Revolution’s ideas about governance and independence. And the movement’s War for Independence was a bloody civil war that not only pitted brother against brother and fathers against sons; it also pitted wives against husbands.

    Cynthia A. Kierner is a professor of history at George Mason University and the author of the book The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America. Cindy joins us to lead us through the story of Jane and William Spurgin, an everyday couple who lived in the North Carolina Backcountry during the American Revolution and who found themselves supporting different sides of the Revolution.

    Show Notes:https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/380



    Sponsor Links

    • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    • John D. Rockefeller Jr., Library The Virginia Gazette


    Complementary Episodes

    • Episode 085: Bonnie Huskins, American Loyalists in Canada
    • Episode 126: Rebecca Brannon, The Reintegration of American Loyalists
    • Episode 237: Nora Doyle, Motherhood in Early America
    • Episode 325: Woody Holton, Everyday People of the American Revolution
    • Episode 330: Brad Jones, Loyalism in the British Atlantic World
    • Episode 356: Paul Peucker, The Moravian Church in North America


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    1 hr and 5 mins
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  • 07-18-22

One of the Best

Tale note kids, this is how a podcast should be done. From the content to the production values, Liz Covart sets the standard.

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