Stay ConnectedThis is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who love history and 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.
Copyright: © Liz Covart 2024
Have you ever considered early American cities as places where Native Americans lived, worked, and visited?
Native Americans often visited early American cities and port towns, especially the towns and cities that dotted the Atlantic seaboard of British North America.
Colin Calloway, an award-winning historian and a Professor History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, joins us to investigate Native American experiences in early American cities with details from his book, “The Chiefs Now In This City": Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/314
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🎧 Episode 029: Colin Calloway, The Victory With No Name
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🎧 Episode 264: Michael Oberg, The Treaty of Canandaigua
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Welcome to OI Reads, an occasional series on Ben Franklin's World where we introduce you to new books that we'll think you love and that are published by the Omohundro Institute.
Using details from her book, The Strange Genius of Mr. O, Carolyn Eastman, a Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, acquaints us with James Ogilvie, one of early America's first bonafide celebrities.
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You know “America’s favorite fighting Frenchman” is the Marquis de Lafayette. But what do you know about Lafayette and his life?
How and why did this French-born noble end up fighting in the American Revolution?
Mike Duncan, a self-described history geek, public historian, and the podcaster behind the award-winning podcast The History of Rome and the popular podcast Revolutions, joins us to investigate the life of the Marquis de Lafayette with details from his book, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/313
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🎧 Bonus Episode: The Marquis de Lafayette and the Hermione
🎧 Episode 071: Bruce Venter, Saratoga & Hubbardton, 1777
🎧 Episode 203: Joanne Freeman, Alexander Hamilton
🎧 Episode 208: Nathaniel Philbrick, Turning Points of the American Revolution
🎧 Episode 311: Katherine Carté, Religion and the American Revolution
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The transatlantic slave trade dominated in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. But by 1808, a different slave trade came to dominate in the young United States, the domestic or internal slave trade.
Joshua D. Rothman, an award-winning historian, Professor of History at the University of Alabama, and author of the book, The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America, leads us on an exploration of the United States’ domestic slave trade and the lives of three slave traders who helped to define this trade.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/312
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🎧 Episode 063: Megan Kate Nelson, Ruin Nation: Destruction and the Civil War
🎧 Episode 118: Christy Clark-Pujara, The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
🎧 Episode 135: Julie Holcomb, The Transatlantic Boycott of Slave Labor
🎧 Episode 142: Manisha Sinha, A History of Abolition
🎧 Episode 176: Daina Ramey Berry, The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave
🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery
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Investigations of the American Revolution often include explorations of politics, ideology, trade and taxation, imperial control, and social strife. What about religion?
What role did religion play in the American Revolution?
Katherine Carté, an Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and the author of Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, joins us to investigate the role of religion in the American Revolution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/311
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🎧 Episode 025: Jessica Parr, Inventing George Whitefield
🎧 Episode 134: Spence McBride, Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
🎧 Episode 152: Origins of the American Revolution
🎧 Episode 214: Christopher Grasso, Skepticism & American Faith
🎧 Episode 307: Michael Hattem, History and the American Revolution
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To understand early American history, we need to investigate and understand North America as an Indigenous space. A place where Native American populations, politics, religion, and trade networks prevailed for centuries before and after the arrival of Europeans and enslaved Africans.
In this episode, we travel into the heart of the North American continent to explore the life, history and culture of the Blackfeet People with Rosalyn LaPier, a University of Montana professor, historian, ethnobotanist, and award-winning Indigenous writer. Rosalyn is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and a member of the Métis, one of the three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/310
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🎧 Episode 286: Native American Sovereignty
🎧 Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag: Before 1620
🎧 Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag: 1620 and Beyond
🎧 Episode 301: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 1
🎧 Episode 302: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 2
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By the eighteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean had become a busy highway of ships crisscrossing its waters.
What do we know about the ships that made these transatlantic voyages and connected the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world through trade, people, and information?
Phillip Reid, a historian of the Atlantic World and maritime technology and author of The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, joins us to explore the eighteenth-century British merchant ship and the business of transatlantic shipping.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/309
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🎧 Episode 012: Dane Morrison, The South Seas & the Discovery of American Identity
🎧 Episode 015: Joyce Chaplin, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
🎧 Episode 099: Mark Hanna, Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World
🎧 Episode 140: Tamara Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea
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The story of freedom in colonial New Orleans and Louisiana pivoted on the choices black women made to retain control of their bodies, families, and futures.
How did black women in colonial Louisiana navigate French and Spanish black and slavery codes to retain control of their bodies, families, and futures?
Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and author of the award-winning book Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, joins us to investigate answers to this question and to reveal what viewing the history of the Atlantic World through the histories of slavery and gender can show us about what life was really like for colonists, settlers, and the enslaved.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/308
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🎧 Episode 232: Christopher Hodson, The Acadian Diaspora
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🎧 Episode 289: Marcus Nevius, Maroonage & the Great Dismal Swamp
🎧 Episode 295: Ibrahima Seck, Whitney Plantation Museum
🎧 Episode 303: Matthew Powell, La Pointe-Krebs House
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In Episode 307, Michael Hattem helped us investigate the role history played in the American Revolution and the ways early historians used history as a tool to unite Americans as one people after the Revolution.
This bonus episode brings us back together with Michael Hattem so we can explore a few topics we didn’t have time to explore in our full-length episode: A listener question about how British Americans thought about the British Empire’s responsibility to protect them and historical schools of thought, how schools of thought develop, and the different schools of historical thought when it comes to the American Revolution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/307
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The story of the founding of the United States is a familiar one. It usually (but not always) begins with the English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, describes the founding and development of thirteen British North American colonies that hugged North America’s eastern seaboard, and then delves into the imperial reforms and conflicts that caused the colonists to respond with violent protests during the 1760s and 1770s.
Then there is the war, which began in April 1775 and ended in 1783. The adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. And the story of how against all odds, the Americans persevered and founded an independent United States.
Have you ever wondered where this familiar narrative came from and why it was developed?
Michael Hattem, a historian of Early America who has a research expertise in the age and memory of the American Revolution, joins us to investigate the creation of the “grand narrative” about the Revolution and the United States’ founding, with details from his book, Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/307
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