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Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

Liz Covart

This is a show about early American history. Awarded Best History Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters in 2017, it’s 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 conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history. It is produced by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Episodes

288 Tyson Reeder, Smugglers & Patriots in the 18th-Century Atlantic

Nov 10 2020 • 64 MIN

In what ways did the Atlantic World contribute to the American Revolution? Empire, slavery, and constant warfare interacted with each other in the Atlantic World. Which brings us to our question: I...

Our History Has Always Been Spoken: Trailer for Massachusetts, 1620 Series

Nov 6 2020 • 217 MIN

Join the Omohundro Institute and Mass Humanities for a special two-episode series about the World of the Wampanoag before and after 1620. The Wampanoag’s history has always been spoken. Hear it on ...

Bonus. Listener Q&A: The Early History of the United States Congress

Oct 30 2020 • 1102 MIN

This special bonus episode previews the Ben Franklin's World Subscription program and its monthly bonus episode for program subscribers. In this bonus episode, Historian of the United States House ...

287 Elections in Early America: Presidential Elections & the Electoral College

Oct 27 2020 • 62 MIN

For four months during the summer of 1787, delegates from the thirteen states met in Philadelphia to craft a revised Constitution that would define the government of the United States. It took them...

286 Elections in Early America: Native Sovereignty

Oct 20 2020 • 3396 MIN

Who is American democracy for and who could participate in early American democracy? Women and African Americans were often barred from voting in colonial and early republic elections. But what abo...

285 Elections in Early America: Elections & Voting in the Early American Republic

Oct 13 2020 • 71 MIN

Independence from Great Britain provided the former British American colonists the opportunity to create a new, more democratic government than they had lived under before the American Revolution. ...