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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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  • 389 Indigenous Justice in Early America

    389 Indigenous Justice in Early America
    Jul 16 2024
    Early North America was a place that contained hundreds of distinct Indigenous nations and peoples who spoke at least 2,000 distinct languages. In the early sixteenth century, Spain began to establish colonies on mainland North America, and they were followed by the French, Dutch, and English, and the forced migration of enslaved Africans who represented at least 45 different ethnic and cultural groups. With such diversity, Early North America was full of cross-cultural encounters. What did it look like when people of different ethnicities, races, and cultures interacted with one another? How were the people involved in cross-cultural encounters able to understand and overcome their differences? Nicole Eustace is an award-winning historian at New York University. Using details from her Pulitzer-prize-winning book, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, Nicole will take us through one cross-cultural encounter in 1722 between the Haudenosaunee and Susquehannock peoples and English colonists in Pennsylvania. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/389 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationThe Power of Place: The Centennial Campaign for Colonial WilliamsburgFriends of Lafayette Grand Tour Re-enactment Complementary Episodes Episode 080: Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons and Prison Life in Early America Episode 171: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade in North AmericaEpisode 220: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of Slavery Episode 264: Treaty of CanandaiguaEpisode 356: The Moravian Church in North AmericaEpisode 362: Treaties Between the US and American Indian Nations 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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    55 mins
  • 388 John Hancock

    388 John Hancock
    Jul 2 2024
    Happy Fourth of July! We’ve created special episodes to commemorate, celebrate, and remember the Fourth of July for years. Many of our episodes have focused on the Declaration of Independence, how and why it was created, the ideas behind it, and its sacred words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” This year, we examine a different aspect of the Declaration of Independence: the man behind the boldest signature on the document: John Hancock. Brooke Barbier is a public historian and holds a Ph.D. in American History from Boston College. She’s also the author of the first biography in many years about John Hancock, it’s called King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/388 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationThe Power of Place: The Centennial Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg Friends of Lafayette Grand Tour Re-enactment Complementary Episodes Episode 018: Our DeclarationEpisode 129: John Bell, The Road to Concord, 1775Episode 141: A Declaration in DraftEpisode 245: Celebrating the FourthEpisode 277: Whose Fourth of July?Episode 306: The Horse’s Tail: Revolution & Memory in Early New York CityEpisode 309: Merchant Ships of the Eighteenth CenturyEpisode 360: Kyera Singleton, Slavery & Freedom in Massachusetts 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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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 387 California and Slavery

    387 California and Slavery
    Jun 25 2024

    When we think of California, we might think about sunny weather, Hollywood, beaches, wine country, and perhaps the Gold Rush.

    What we don’t usually think about when we think about California is the state’s long history of slavery.

    Jean Pfaelzer, a Californian and a Professor Emerita of English, Asian Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, joins us to lead us through some of California’s long 250-year history of slavery with details from her book, California: A Slave State.

    Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/387



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    • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    • American Friends of Lafayette Grand Tour Re-Enactment


    Complementary Episodes

    • Episode 014: West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
    • Episode 067: An Environmental History of Early California and Hawaii
    • Episode 115: The Early American History of Texas
    • Episode 139: The Other Slavery: Indian Enslavement in the Americas
    • Episode 233: A History of Russian America
    • Episode 277: Whose Fourth of July?
    • Episode 312: The Domestic Slave Trade
    • Episode 371: An Archive of Indigenous Slavery
    • Episode 384: Making Maine: A Journey to Statehood

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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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