by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 26, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Education, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/367-_Brafferton_Pt_1.mp3 Carol M. Highsmith, The building known simply as “The Brafferton” was completed in 1783 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. November 24, 2019, photograph, Library...
by Ben Franklin's World | Sep 12, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/366-_Taylor.mp3 On September 17, 1787, the members of the Constitutional Convention concluded their work by signing the final draft of their new proposed government. The document they signed was the United States...
by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 29, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/365-_Recast_Ile_Saint_Jean.mp3 2020 commemorated the 300th anniversary of French presence on Prince Edward Island. Like much of North America, the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton...
by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 15, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/364-_Recast_La_Pointe-Krebs.mp3 The Mississippi Gulf Coast was the home of many different peoples, cultures, and empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. According to some historians, the Gulf Coast region...
by Ben Franklin's World | Aug 1, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/363-_Recast_Ste_Genevieve.mp3 About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis sits the town of Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviève reveals much about what it was...
by Ben Franklin's World | Jul 18, 2023 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk, Uncategorized
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/362_Penney.mp3 The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations. This exhibit allows you to see treaties the...
