Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
This 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.
Each episode features conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Ben Franklin's World podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Thoughts on government
John Adams
George Wythe
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Road to Concord
How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War (Journal of the American Revolution Books)
J.L. Bell
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The colored patriots of the American Revolution
William C. Nell
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Edward Duffield, Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, and Gentleman, 1730-1803
Bob Frishman
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The common cause
Robert G. Parkinson
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
Mary Beth Norton
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Declaration of Independence
A Global History
Terence M. Stanton
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
William Clark's World
Describing America in an age of unknowns
Peter Kastor
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tom Paine's America, The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
Seth Cotler
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic
Sarah Naramore
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sealed with Blood
Worst Sacrifice in Memory in Revolutionary America
Sarah Purcell
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The History of the Two Indies
Abbé Raynal
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Black reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Nation Without Borders
Stephen Hahn
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
American Colonies
Alan Taylor
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Common Wind
Julia Scott
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Separated by their sex
Mary Beth Norton
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Vicious and Immoral
Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
John Gilbert McCurdy
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Revolutionary Blacks
Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence
Shirley Green
