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383 Aquatic Culture in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - April 30, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsIf you will recall from Episode 331, the Williamsburg Bray School is the oldest existing structure in the United States that we know was used to educate African and African American children. As the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation prepares the Bray School for you to visit and see, we’re havin...
382 Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
Ben Franklin's World - April 16, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsWithin 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...
381 Texas in the Spanish Empire
Ben Franklin's World - April 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe 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...
380 The Tory's Wife
Ben Franklin's World - March 19, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe 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 ...
379 Women Healers in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - March 05, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsWomen make up eight out of every ten healthcare workers in the United States. Yet they lag behind men when it comes to working in the roles of medical doctors and surgeons. Why has healthcare become a professional field dominated by women, and yet women represent a minority of physicians and d...
378 Everyday Black Living in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - February 20, 2024 06:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsWhen we study the history of Black Americans, especially in the early American period, we tend to focus on slavery and the slave trades. But focusing solely on slavery can hinder our ability to see that, like all early Americans, Black Americans were multi-dimensional people who led complicated ...
377 Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright
Ben Franklin's World - February 06, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratings2023 marked the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Phillis Wheatley's published book of poetry in the British American colonies. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who, as a teenager, became the first published African author of a book of poetry written in English. Ade Solanke,...
376 Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons
Ben Franklin's World - January 23, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsColonial America was born in a world of religious alliances and rivalries. Missionary efforts in the colonial Americas allow us to see how some of these religious alliances and rivalries played out. Spain, and later France, sent Catholic priests and friars to North and South America, and the Car...
375 Misinformation Nation: Fake News in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - January 09, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsOver the past decade, we’ve heard a lot about “fake news” and “misinformation.” And as 2024 is an election year, it’s likely we’re going to hear even more about these terms. So what is the origin of misinformation in the American press? When did Americans decide that they needed to be concerne...
374 The American Revolutionary War in the West
Ben Franklin's World - December 26, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe American Revolution and its War for Independence comprised the United States’ founding movement. The War for Independence also served as the fifth major war for European empire in North America. The fourth war for European empire, the Seven Years’ War, reshaped and redefined Europe’s world...
373 The Gaspee Affair, 1772
Ben Franklin's World - December 12, 2023 06:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe so-called “March to the American Revolution” comprised many more events than just the Stamp Act Riots, the Boston Massacre, and the Tea Crisis. One event we often overlook played an essential and direct role in the events needed to draw the thirteen rebellious British North American colonies...
372 A History of the Myaamia
Ben Franklin's World - November 28, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsEarly America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and nations living in different areas of North America before the Spanish and other European empires arrived on the continent’s shores. Diane H...
371 An Archive of Indigenous Slavery
Ben Franklin's World - November 14, 2023 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsLong before European arrival in the Americas, Indigenous people and nations practiced enslavement. Their version of enslavement looked different from the version Christopher Columbus and his fellow Europeans practiced, but Indigenous slavery also shared many similarities with the Euro-American p...
370 The Ruin of All Witches
Ben Franklin's World - October 31, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsHappy Halloween! In honor of the 31st of October and All Hallows Eve, we investigate a historical incident of witches and witchcraft in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651. Malcolm Gaskill, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and one ...
369 Livestock and Animal Breeds in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - October 24, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsEstablishing colonies in North America took an astonishing amount of work. Colonists had to clear trees, eventually remove stumps from newly cleared fields, plant crops to eat and sell, weed and tend those crops, and then they had to harvest crops, and get the crops they intended to sell to the ...
368 Legacies of the Brafferton Indian School
Ben Franklin's World - October 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe Brafferton Indian School has a long and complicated legacy. Chartered with the College of William & Mary in 1693, the Brafferton Indian School’s purpose was to educate young Indigenous boys in the ways of English religion, language, and culture. The Brafferton performed this work for more th...
367 The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1
Ben Franklin's World - September 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsIn 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England granted a royal charter for two institutions of higher education in the Colony of Virginia. The first institution was the College of William & Mary. The second institution was the Indian School at William & Mary, known from 1723 to the prese...
366 Michael Taylor, James Wilson & the U.S. Constitution
Ben Franklin's World - September 12, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsOn September 17, 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention concluded their work by signing the final draft of their new proposed government. The document they signed was the United States Constitution, which is why the United States marks Constitution Day each year on September 17. In...
366 James Wilson & the U.S. Constitution
Ben Franklin's World - September 12, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsOn September 17, 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention concluded their work by signing the final draft of their new proposed government. The document they signed was the United States Constitution, which is why the United States marks Constitution Day each year on September 17. In...
365 Road Trip 2023: Early Settlement at Île Ste. Jean
Ben Franklin's World - August 29, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratings2020 commemorated the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of North America, the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, and Prince Edward Island were highly contested regions. In fact, the way France and Great Britain ...
364 Road Trip 2023: La Pointe-Krebs House & Museum
Ben Franklin's World - August 15, 2023 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to some historians, the Gulf Coast region may have been the most diverse region in early North America. Matthew Powell, a historian of slavery an...
363 Road Trip 2023: Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park
Ben Franklin's World - August 01, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsAbout 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviéve reveals much about what it was like to establish a colony in the heartland of North America and what it was like for colonists to l...
362: David W. Penney, Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations
Ben Franklin's World - July 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations. This exhibit allows you to see treaties the United States has made with American Indian nations and learn more about those treaties and t...
362 Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations
Ben Franklin's World - July 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations. This exhibit allows you to see treaties the United States has made with American Indian nations and learn more about those treaties and t...
361 The Fourth of July in 2026
Ben Franklin's World - July 04, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsJuly 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we will be marking the 250th anniversary of these events. How are historians thinking about the American Revolution for 2026? What are they discussing when it c...
360 Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts
Ben Franklin's World - June 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsJuneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, inform...
360 Kyera Singleton, Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts
Ben Franklin's World - June 20, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsJuneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, inform...
359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - June 06, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratings“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white. What we see instead is that people are colorful because they aren’t just one thing and they don’t think and act in one way. Human...
359 Jen Manion, Trans-ing Gender in Early America
Ben Franklin's World - June 06, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 988 ratings“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white. What we see instead is that people are colorful because they aren’t just one thing and they don’t think and act in one way. Human...
358 St. Augustine & Early Florida
Ben Franklin's World - May 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsFor much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the administrative units it created to govern this vast territory: New Spain and La Florida. Charles Tingley is a Senior Research Librarian at the St. Augusti...
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