Episode 340: Nicholas Guyatt, Prisoners of War and the War of 1812

by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 11, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/340_Guyatt.mp3 The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it was not a war that the...

Episode 339: Mary Sarah Bilder, Women and the Constitutional Moment of 1787

by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 27, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/339_Bilder.mp3 Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we now call the...

Episode 338: The Early History of the United States Senate

by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 13, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/338_History_of_the_Senate.mp3 On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the states...

Episode 337: Dael Norwood Early America’s Trade with China

by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 30, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/337_Norwood.mp3 What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’ independence was to establish a trade with China and...

Episode 336: Vanessa Holden, Surviving the Southampton Rebellion

by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 16, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/336_Holden_v2.mp3 What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising? Over the course of the early republic, we see a few violent slave uprisings in the United States. A particularly brutal rebellion took...

Episode 335: Andrew Porwancher, The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton

by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 2, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/335_Porwancher.mp3 Alexander Hamilton played important roles in the founding of the United States. He served in the Continental Army, helped frame the United States Constitution, and helped place the United States on...