Episode 344: Music in British North America

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

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/344_Hildebrand.mp3 Our 5-episode series about music in Early America continues with this second episode that seeks to answer your questions about music in Early America. David Hildebrand is a musicologist and an...

Episode 343: Music and Song in Native North America

by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 22, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/343_Hamill.mp3 What was music like in Early America? How did different early Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and White Americans—integrate and use music in their daily lives? Your questions about music...

Episode 342: Elizabeth Ellis, The Great Power of Small Native Nations

by Ben Franklin's World | Nov 8, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/342_Ellis.mp3 Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French colonization in the Gulf South region? Elizabeth Ellis, an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton...

Episode 341: Mairi Cowan, Possession and Exorcism in New France

by Ben Franklin's World | Oct 25, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, Podcasts, The Kiosk

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/341_Cowan.mp3 Prepare for tricks, treats, and time travel! In honor of Halloween, we’re traveling back to the mid-seventeenth century to investigate a case of demonic possession...

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...