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...

Episode 373: Adrian Weimer, The Gaspee Affair

by Ben Franklin's World | Dec 12, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/373-_Weimer.mp3 The so-called “March to the American Revolution” comprised many more events than just the Stamp Act Riots, the Boston Massacre, and the Tea Crisis. One event we often overlook played an essential and direct...

Episode 372: John Bickers and Diane Hunter, A History of the Myaamia

by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 28, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/372-_Myaamia.mp3 Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Early America was a diverse place. A significant part of this diversity came from the fact that there were at least 1,000 different Indigenous tribes and...

Estevan Rael-Gálvez, An Archive of Indigenous Slavery

by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 14, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/371-_Rael-Galvez.mp3 Long before European arrival in the Americas, Indigenous people and nations practiced enslavement. Their version of enslavement looked different from the version Christopher Columbus and his fellow...

Malcolm Gaskill, The Ruin of All Witches

by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 31, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/370-_Gaskill.mp3 Happy Halloween! In honor of the 31st of October and All Hallows Eve, we investigate a historical incident of witches and witchcraft in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651. Malcolm Gaskill, Emeritus...