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267 Winter in the Early American Northeast

Ben Franklin's World

English - December 03, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratings
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How did the people of early America experience and feel about winter?

Thomas Wickman, an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and author of Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural Winter in the Early American Northeast, joins us to investigate how Native Americans and early Americans experienced and felt about winter during the 17th and early 18th centuries.

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