Help the U.S. Department of Commerce Amplify Women’s History Month!

by American Association for State and Local History | Feb 16, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

By Samantha Feder, U.S. Commercial Service The U.S. Commercial Service’s Global Travel and Tourism team, under the U.S. Department of Commerce, organizes monthly social media campaigns aligned with special recognition months. For March, we are looking to highlight...

Episode 377: Ade Solanke, Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright

by Ben Franklin's World | Feb 6, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/377_Solanke.mp3 2023 marked the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Phillis Wheatley’s published book of poetry in the British American colonies. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who, as a teenager,...

Episode 376: Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons

by Ben Franklin's World | Jan 23, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/376_Gruesz.mp3 Colonial America was born in a world of religious alliances and rivalries. Missionary efforts in the colonial Americas allow us to see how some of these religious alliances and rivalries played out. Spain,...

Episode 375: Jordan E. Taylor, Misinformation Nation: Fake News in Early America

by Ben Franklin's World | Jan 9, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/375_Taylor.mp3 Over the past decade, we’ve heard a lot about “fake news” and “misinformation.” And as 2024 is an election year, it’s likely we’re going to hear these terms even more. So what is the origin of misinformation...

Episode 374: Stephen Kling, Jr., The American Revolutionary War in the West

by Ben Franklin's World | Dec 26, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/374_Kling.mp3 The American Revolution and its War for Independence comprised the United States’ founding movement. The War for Independence also served as the fifth major war for European empire in North America. The fourth...

Museums and Historic Sites (Taylor’s Version)

by American Association for State and Local History | Dec 18, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

Dundurn National Historic SiteBy Meredith Leonard, City of Hamilton and AASLH Educators and Interpreters Committee Embracing eras as an interpretive tool to expand our stories, reach, and relevance I’m sure I wasn’t the only Swiftie and card-carrying history nerd to...