by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 24, 2026 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/437_Duval.mp3 The British Army is at your door. They need a room. What do you do? For thousands of civilians living in cities occupied during the American War for Independence — Boston, New York, Newport, Philadelphia,...
by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 10, 2026 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/436_Fort_Ticonderoga.mp3 On March 17, 1776, the British evacuated Boston—driven out not by a pitched battle, but by the sight of cannon perched on Dorchester Heights, aimed straight down at their positions. Those guns had...
by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 3, 2026 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/435_ITPS.mp3 What happens after the revolution? Thomas Paine’s Common Sense made the case for independence, but Paine himself understood that breaking free from a king was only the beginning. The harder work was...
by Ben Franklin's World | Feb 24, 2026 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/434_Green.mp3 What would you fight for if you were free but still not equal? In 1777, brothers William and Benjamin Frank answered that question by enlisting in the Continental Army. Freeborn Black men in Rhode Island, they...
by Ben Franklin's World | Feb 10, 2026 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/433_Johnson.mp3 The American Revolution wasn’t just a War for Independence. The Revolution was part of a wider age of revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic World. Ronald Angelo Johnson, the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair...
