Episode 423: Zara Anishanslin, The Forgotten Artists of the American Revolution

by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 21, 2025 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/423_Anishanslin_1.mp3 Have you ever noticed how conversations about the American Revolution often center on great battles, founding documents, and famous statesmen? What if, instead, we explored that world through the...

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 7, 2025 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML2380322675.mp3 When we talk about slavery in Early America, we often focus on plantations: their large, fertile fields, their cash crops, and the people who labored on those...

Episode 421: Greg Brooking, Loyalism and Revolution in Georgia

by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 23, 2025 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/421_Brooking.mp3 What if loyalty, not rebellion, was the default position in British North America? It’s easy to forget that before 1776, most colonists identified as proud Britons. They didn’t see themselves as future...

Episode 420: Peter Kastor, Creating the U.S. Federal Government

by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 9, 2025 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML5253660474.mp3 When we think about the founding of the United States, we often focus on the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and those first landmark elections. But how did...

Episode 419: Nathan Schultz, The North Carolina Regulator Movement

by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 26, 2025 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/419_Schultz.mp3 What happens when the very people meant to uphold justice become the ones exploiting it? In the 1760s, North Carolina farmers watched sheriffs pocket their tax payments, judges rule in favor of corrupt land...

Episode 418: The Slave Driver’s Story

by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 12, 2025 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/418_Browne.mp3 We often learn about slavery in early America through broad economic or political terms—cotton, sugar, markets, revolutions. But what happens when we turn our focus to the lived experiences of enslaved people...