Ben Franklin's World

What do historians wish more people better understood about early American history and why do they wish people had that better understanding?In celebration of the 300th episode of Ben Franklin’s World, we posed these questions to more than 30 scholars. What do they think?Join the celebration to discover more about Early America and take a behind-the-scenes tour of your favorite history podcast.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/300 REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can a portrait reveal about the history of colonial British America?Portraits were both deeply personal and yet collaborative artifacts left behind by people of the past. When historians look at multiple portraits created around the same time and place, their similarities can reveal important social connections, trade relationships, or cultural beliefs about race and gender in early American history. Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Associate Curator of American Art at the Chazen Museum of Art and the researcher behind the digital project Colonial Virginia Portraits, leads us on an exploration of portraiture and what it can reveal about the early American past. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/299 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 024: Kimberly Alexander, 18th-Century Fashion & Material Culture🎧 Episode 084: Zara Anishanslin, How Historians Read Historical Sources🎧 Episode 106: Jane Kamensky, The World of John Singleton Copley🎧 Episode 136: Jennifer Van Horn, Material Culture and the Making of America🎧 Episode 292: Glenn Adamson, Craft in Early America    REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever stopped to think about how the United States became a manufacturing nation? Have you ever wondered how the United States developed not just products, but the technologies, knowledge, and machinery necessary to manufacture or produce various products?Lindsay Schakenbach Regele has.Lindsay is an Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the author of Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848, and she joins us today to lead our exploration into the early American origins of industrialization.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/298 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 098: Gautham Rao, Birth of the American Tax Man🎧 Episode 113: Brian Murphy, Building the Empire State🎧 Episode 140: Tamara Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery🎧 Episode 292: Glen Adamson, Craft  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. 
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048 Complementary Episodes🎧 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 REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there anything more we can know about well-researched and reported events like the Boston Massacre?Are there new ways of looking at oft-taught events that can help us see new details about them, even 250 years after they happened?Serena Zabin, a Professor of History at Carleton College in Minnesota and the author of the award-winning book, The Boston Massacre: A Family History, joins us to discuss the Boston Massacre and how she found a new lens through which to view this famous event that reveals new details and insights.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/296 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 159: Serena Zabin, The Revolutionary Economy🎧 Episode 228: Eric Hinderaker, The Boston Massacre🎧 Episode 229: Patrick Griffin, The Townshend Moment🎧 Episode 230: Mitch Kachun, The First Martyr of Liberty🎧 Episode 294: Mary Beth Norton, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it take to create a museum? How can a museum help visitors grapple with a very uncomfortable aspect of their nation’s past?Ibrahima Seck, a member of the History Department at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, author of the book, Bouki Fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860, and the Director of Research of the Whitney Plantation museum, leads us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Whitney Plantation and through the history of slavery in early Louisiana.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/295 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 017: François Furstenberg, When the United States Spoke French🎧 Episode 124: James Alexander Dun, Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America🎧 Episode 125: Terri Snyder, Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America🎧 Episode 137: Erica A. Dunbar, The Washingtons’ Runaway Slave, Ona Judge🎧 Episode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery🎧 Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Beth Norton, an award-winning historian and author focused on the American Revolutionary era, dives deep into the pivotal year of 1774. She discusses how this year marked the critical divide between loyalists and revolutionaries, emphasizing the role of local leadership and newspapers in shaping colonial resistance. Norton explores the complexities of the Tea Act, diverse colonial reactions to the Boston Tea Party, and the formation of the Continental Congress, revealing 1774's significant impact on America's path to independence.

How did Jamaica grow to become the "crown jewel" of the British Atlantic World?Part of the answer is that Jamaica’s women served as some of the most ardent and best supporters of the island’s practice of slavery.Christine Walker, an Assistant Professor of History at the Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the author of the award-winning book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire, leads us on an investigation of female slave holder-ship in 17th and 18th-century Jamaica.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/293 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 008: Gregory O’Malley, Final Passages 🎧 Episode 036: Abigail Swingen, Competing Visions of Empire🎧 Episode 070: Jennifer Morgan, How Historians Research🎧 Episode 236: Daniel Livesay, Mixed-Race Britons & Atlantic Family🎧 Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What was everyday life like for those who lived in early America?To understand the everyday lives of early Americans we need to look at the goods they made and how they produced those goods. In essence, nothing explains the everyday as much as the goods in people’s lives.Glenn Adamson, author of Craft: An American History, joins us to investigate craft and craftspeople in Early America.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/282 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 050: Marla Miller, Betsy Ross and the Making of America🎧 Episode 130: Paul Revere’s Ride Through History🎧 Episode 160: The Politics of Tea🎧 Episode 207: Nick Bunker, Young Benjamin Franklin🎧 Episode 234: Richard Bushman, Farms & Farm Families in Early America🎧 Episode 243: Joseph Adelman: Revolutionary Print Networks 🎧 Episode 288: Tyson Reeder, Smugglers & Patriots in the 18th-Century Atlantic World REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is a companion episode to the 2-episode World of the Wampanoag series. This bonus episode allows us to speak with two guests from the World of the Wampanoag series: Jade Luiz, Curator of Collections at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, and Lorén Spears, Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum in Rhode Island. Both Jade and Lorén help us explore their museums and what it will be like when we visit them in person. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/290 Become a subscriber! https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices