by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 8, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/395_Carp.mp3 When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries overcame...
by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 24, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/394_Rosen.mp3 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 10, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/393_Political_Civility.mp3 The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 have played a vital role in the rise of politics and...
by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 27, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/392_Gin-Lum.mp3 What does history have to tell us about how we, as Americans, came to define people by their race–the visual ways we group people based on their skin color, facial features, hair texture, and ancestry?...
by American Association for State and Local History | Aug 23, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
–By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO “The United States turns 250 years old in 2026. Gen Z will write its next chapter.” For all AASLH has done to encourage thoughtful planning for the nation’s 250th, we still have work to do to get younger people involved. So...
by American Association for State and Local History | Aug 20, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
As we prepare for the 2024 AASLH Annual Conference in Mobile, AL, in a couple of weeks, AASLH staff and members of our Host Committee have put together some resources to prepare you for visiting the Alabama Gulf Coast. Here are books, documentaries, podcasts, and even...
