
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart



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319 Cuba: An Early American History
Ben Franklin's World
01/04/22 • 68 min
One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico in between the Yucatán and Florida peninsulas. This is, of course, is the island of Cuba.
What do we know about early Cuba, the island the Spanish described as the “Key to the Indies?” What kind of relationship and exchange did early Cuba have with British North America and the early United States?
Ada Ferrer, a Professor of History at New York University and author of Cuba: An American History, joins us to investigate the early history of Cuba.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048
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🎧 Episode 090: Caitlin Fitz, Age of American Revolutions
🎧 Episode 104: Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier
🎧 Episode 139: Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery
🎧 Episode 161: Smuggling and the American Revolution
🎧 Episode 165: The Age of Revolutions
🎧 Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1
🎧 Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2
🎧 Episode 313: Mike Duncan, The Marquis de Lafayette
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316 Yellow Fever, Immunity, & Early New Orleans
Ben Franklin's World
11/23/21 • 49 min
In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. This purchase included the important port city of New Orleans. But the United States did not just acquire the city’s land, peoples, and wealth– the American government also inherited the city’s Yellow Fever problem.
Kathryn Olivarius, an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University and author of Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, leads us on an exploration of yellow fever, immunity, and inequality in early New Orleans.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/316
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans
🎧 Episode 174: Thomas Apel, Yellow Fever in the Early America Republic
🎧 Episode 295: Ibrahima Seck, Whitney Plantation Museum
🎧 Episode 301: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Pt 1
🎧 Episode 302: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Pt 2
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325 Everyday People of the American Revolution
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03/29/22 • 79 min
What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform, and as a time of violence and upheaval?
Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution, joins us to explore and discuss answers to these questions so that we can better see and understand the American Revolution as a whole event.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/325
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🎧 Episode 060: David Preston, Braddock’s Defeat
🎧 Episode 128: Alan Taylor: American Revolutions: A Continental History
🎧 Episode 144: Rob Parkinson, The Common Cause
🎧 Episode 150: Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator
🎧 Episode 152: Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
🎧 Episode 181: Max Edelson, The New Map of the British Empire
🎧 Episode 294: Mary Beth Norton, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
🎧 Episode 296: Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre
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297 Indian Removal Act of 1830
Ben Franklin's World
03/16/21 • 62 min
The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the Caribbean, wanting land for farms and settlement so they found ways to acquire lands from indigenous peoples by the means of negotiation, bad-faith dealing, war, and violence.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is deeply rooted in early American history.
Claudio Saunt, a scholar of Native American history at the University of Georgia, and author of the book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, joins us to discuss the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how Native Americans in the southeastern part of the United States were removed from their homelands and resettled in areas of southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma.
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- Episode 034: Mark Cheatham, Andrew Jackson, Southerner
- Episode 158: The Revolutionaries’ Army
- Episode 162: Dunmore’s World
- Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America
- Episode 286: Elections in Early America: Native Sovereignty
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320 Benjamin Franklin's London House
Ben Franklin's World
01/18/22 • 74 min
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706, to Abiah Folger and Josiah Franklin. Although Franklin began his life as the youngest son of a youngest son, he traveled through many parts of what is now the northeastern United States and the Province of Quebec and lived in four different cities in three different countries: Boston, Philadelphia, London, and Passy, France.
In honor of Benjamin Franklin’s 316th birthday, Márcia Balisciano, the Founding Director of the Benjamin Franklin House museum in London, joins us to explore Benjamin Franklin’s life in London using details from the largest artifact Franklin left behind: his rented rooms at 36 Craven Street.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/320
Complementary Episodes
🎧 Episode 001: James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia
🎧 Episode 022: Vivian Bruce Conger, Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache
🎧 Episode 149: George Goodwin, Benjamin Franklin in London
🎧 Episode 169: Thomas Kid, The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
🎧 Episode 175: Daniel Epstein, The Revolution in Ben Franklin’s House
🎧 Episode 207: Nick Bunker, Young Benjamin Franklin
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221 The Culinary Adventures of Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin's World
01/15/19 • 56 min
Can food help us better understand the people and events of the past? Can we better understand a person like Benjamin Franklin and who he was by the foods he ate?
Rae Katherine Eighmey, an award-winning food historian, author, and cook, joins us to explore the culinary tastes and habits of Benjamin Franklin and colonial British Americans with details from her book Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father’s Culinary Adventures.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/221
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Complementary Episodes
- Episode 019: Kenneth Turino, The Colonial Boston Marketplace
- Episode 022: Vivian Bruce Conger, Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache
- Episode 044: Adam Shprintzen, The Vegetarian Crusade
- Episode 135: Julie Holcomb, Moral Commerce: The Tranatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
- Episode 169: Thomas S. Kidd, The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
- Episode 207: Nick Bunker, Young Benjamin Franklin
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169 The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin's World
01/16/18 • 52 min
We remember Benjamin Franklin as an accomplished printer, scientist, and statesman. Someone who came from humble beginnings and made his own way in the world. Rarely do we remember Franklin as a man of faith.
Benjamin Franklin spent more time grappling with questions of religion, faith, virtue, and morality in his writing than about any other topic.
Thomas S. Kidd, a Professor of History at Baylor University and author of Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father, leads us on a detailed exploration of the religious life of Benjamin Franklin.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/169
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Complementary Episodes
- Episode 001: James Green, The Library Company of Philadelphia
- Episode 022: Vivian Bruce Conger, Deborah Read Franklin & Sally Franklin Bache
- Episode 025: Jessica Parr, Inventing George Whitefield
- Episode 031: Michael Hattem, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
- Episode 141: Drafting the Declaration of Independence
- Episode 149: George Goodwin, Benjamin Franklin in London
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317 American Jewish Historical Society, Jews in Early America
Ben Franklin's World
12/07/21 • 63 min
The first Jewish colonists in North America arrived in 1654. From that moment, Jews worked to build and contribute to early American society and the birth of the United States.
Gemma Birnbaum and Melanie Meyers, the Executive Director and Director of Collections and Engagement at the American Jewish Historical Society, join us to explore the history and experiences of Jews in early America and their contributions to the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/317
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🎧 Episode 121: Wim Klooster, The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
🎧 Episode 161: Smuggling and the American Revolution
🎧 Episode 185: Joyce Goodfriend, Early New York City and its culture
🎧 Episode 232: Christopher Hodson, The Acadian Diaspora
🎧 Episode 311: Katherine Cartè, Religion and the American Revolution
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359 Trans-ing Gender in Early America
Ben Franklin's World
06/06/23 • 56 min
“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 identities are one area where we find a lot of colorfulness and complexity. Most humans have multiple Identities based in geography, nationality, religious affiliation, race and ethnicity, and also gender.
Jen Manion, a Professor of History and of Sexuality and Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College and author of the book, Female Husbands: A Trans History, joins us to investigate the early American world of female husbands, people who were assigned female at birth and then transed-gender at some point in their lives to live as men.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/359
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🎧 Episode 002: Cornelia King, “That So Gay” Exhibit at the Library Company of Philadelphia
🎧 Episode 013: Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
🎧 Episode 080: Jen Manion, Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons and Prison Life in Early America
🎧 Episode 266: Johann Neem, Education in Early America
🎧 Episode 292: Craft in Early America
🎧 Episode 309: Philip Reid, Merchant Ships of the Eighteenth Century
🎧 Episode 354: John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Gir’s Tale
🎧 Episode 357: Eric Jay Dolin, Privateering During the American Revolution
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246 BFW Road Trip: Château de Ramezay
Ben Franklin's World
07/09/19 • 45 min
Did Canada almost join the American Revolution?
Bruno Paul Stenson, a historian and musicologist with the Château de Ramezay historic site in Montréal, joins us to discuss how the American Revolution played out in Canada.
This episode originally posted as Episode 041.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/246
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Complementary Episodes
- Episode 037: Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
- Episode 038: Carolyn Harris, Magna Carta & Its Gifts to North America
- Episode 039: Eric Nelson, The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding
- Episode 040: Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon, For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789
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How many episodes does Ben Franklin's World have?
Ben Franklin's World currently has 444 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, History and Podcasts.
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The episode title '319 Cuba: An Early American History' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Ben Franklin's World is 56 minutes.
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Episodes of Ben Franklin's World are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Ben Franklin's World was released on Sep 27, 2014.
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