Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early Americ

276 Stephen Fried, Benjamin Rush: Founding Father

Who gets to be a founding father? “Founding Father” status goes to men who helped found the...

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275 Ingrid Tague, Pets in Early America

What kinds of animals did early Americans keep as pets? How did early Americans acquire pets?...

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274 Alan Gallay, Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

What do we know about how and why England came to establish its first permanent colony at...

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273 Victoria Johnson, David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic

How did Americans learn to establish philanthropic institutions? Victoria Johnson, an Associate...

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272 Origins of the 11th Amendment

What do you know about the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution? Caitlin...

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272 Origins of the 11th Amendment

What do you know about the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution? Caitlin...

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286 Vast Early America Series: The Oregon Trail

Do you have what it takes to be a pioneer? If offered the opportunity, would you undertake a...

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285 Vast Early America Series: Age of American Revolutions

The American Revolution inspired revolutions in France, the Caribbean, and in Latin and South...

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284 Vast Early America Series: A History of Early Detroit

Located 600 miles inland from Philadelphia and over 700 miles from Québec City, early Detroit...

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283 Vast Early America Series: After Yorktown

When did the fighting of the American War for Independence end? In school we learn that the war...

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282 Vast Early America Series: India and the Making of Britain & America

Neither colonial North America nor the United States developed apart from the rest of the world....

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281 Vast Early America Series: The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

Colonial America comprised many different cultural and political worlds. Most colonial Americans...

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280 Vast Early America Series: Thundersticks

Early North America was a place rife with violent conflict. Between the 17th and 19th centuries...

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279 Vast Early America Series: Christian Slavery

Between 1500 and the 1860s, Europeans and Americans forcibly removed approximately 12 million...

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278 Vast Early America Series: Competing Visions of Empire

How and where did the colonies of North America and the Caribbean fit within the British Empire?...

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277 Vast Early America Series: Aquatic Culture in Early America

The Atlantic World has brought many disparate peoples together, which has caused a lot of ideas...

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276 Vast Early America Series: The Dutch Moment in the 17th Century

The Spanish, French, and English played large roles in the origins of colonial America. But so...

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275 Vast Early America Series: The Little Ice Age

We’re living in a period of climate change. Our Earth has been getting warmer since the mid-19th...

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274 Vast Early America Series: The Other Slavery

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He also played a central role in the European adoption...

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274 Vast Early America Series: The Other Slavery

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He also played a central role in the European adoption...

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