Episode 326: Maureen Connors Santelli, The Greek Revolution in Early America

by Ben Franklin's World | Apr 12, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/326_Santelli.mp3 With Ukrainian sovereignty and democracy under attack, Americans have been wondering: Should our government be doing more than placing economic sanctions on Russia? Should I, as a U.S. military...

Episode 325: Woody Holton, Everyday People of the American Revolution

by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 29, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/325_Holton.mp3 What do we know about the American Revolution? Why is it important that we see the Revolution as a political event, a war, a time of social and economic reform, and as a time oviolence and upheaval?...

Episode 324: Andrea Mosterman, New Netherland and Slavery

by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 15, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/324_Mosterman.mp3 After Henry Hudson’s 1609-voyage along the river that now bears his name, Dutch traders began to visit and trade at the area they called New Netherland. In 1614, the Dutch established a trading post...

Episode 323 Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder

by Ben Franklin's World | Mar 1, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/323_Witgen.mp3 In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain ceded to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi River and between the southern borders of Canada and Georgia. How would the United States take...

Episode 322: Karen Cook-Bell, Running From Bondage in Revolutionary America

by Ben Franklin's World | Feb 15, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/322_Cook-Bell.mp3 During the War for American Independence, the British Army attempted to create chaos and inflict economic damage to the revolutionaries’ war effort by issuing two proclamations that promised freedom to any...

Episode 321: BFW Team Favorites, Whose Fourth of July?

by Ben Franklin's World | Feb 1, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/321_Recast_Whose_Fourth_v2.mp3 Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879 On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In this episode,...