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Now Accepting Session Proposals for the 2025 AASLH Annual Conference

Now Accepting Session Proposals for the 2025 AASLH Annual Conference

by American Association for State and Local History | Oct 10, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

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395 Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776

395 Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776

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...
394 Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness

394 Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness

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...
Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic

Episode 393: Jonathan Gienapp and Rachel Shelden, Politics and Political Culture in the Early American Republic

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...
Episode 392: Kathryn Gin Lum, Religion and Race in Early America

Episode 392: Kathryn Gin Lum, Religion and Race in Early America

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?...
How Gen Z Wants to Celebrate America’s 250th

How Gen Z Wants to Celebrate America’s 250th

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...
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