by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 28, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/372-_Myaamia.mp3 Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Early America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and...
by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 14, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/371-_Rael-Galvez.mp3 Long before European arrival in the Americas, Indigenous people and nations practiced enslavement. Their version of enslavement looked different from the version Christopher Columbus and his fellow...
by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 31, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/370-_Gaskill.mp3 Happy Halloween! In honor of the 31st of October and All Hallows Eve, we investigate a historical incident of witches and witchcraft in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651. Malcolm Gaskill, Emeritus...
by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 24, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/369-_Rare_Breeds.mp3 Establishing colonies in North America took an astonishing amount of work. Colonists had to clear trees, eventually remove stumps from newly cleared fields, plant crops to eat and sell, weed and tend...
by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 10, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Education, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/368-_Brafferton_Pt_2.mp3 Carol M. Highsmith, The building known simply as “The Brafferton” was completed in 1783 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. November 24, 2019, photograph, Library of...
