by Ben Franklin's World | Dec 17, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/400_Ben_Franklins_world.mp3 How do historians define Ben Franklin’s “world?” What historical event, person, or place in the era of Ben Franklin do they wish you knew about? In celebration of the 400th episode of Ben...
by Ben Franklin's World | Dec 3, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/399_Schipper.mp3 Denmark Vesey’s failed revolt in 1822 could have been the largest insurrection of enslaved people against their enslavers in United States history. Not only was Vesey’s plan large in scale, but Charleston...
by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 19, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/398_Dunmore_War.mp3 After the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), Great Britain instituted the Proclamation Line of 1763. The Line sought to create a lasting peace in British North America by limiting British colonial settlement...
by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 5, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/397_DuVal.mp3 The North American continent is approximately 160 million years old, yet in the United States, we tend to focus on what amounts to 3300 millionths of that history, which is the period between 1492 to the...
by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 22, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/396_Carpenters_Hall.mp3 “Monday, September 5, 1774. A number of the Delegates chosen and appointed by the Several Colonies and Provinces in North America to meet and hold a Congress at Philadelphia assembled at the...