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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 nations living in different areas of North America before the Spanish and other European empires arrived on the continent’s shores. Diane Hunter and John Bickers join us to investigate the history and culture of one of these distinct Indigenous tribes: the Myaamia. At the time of this recording, Diane Hunter was the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. She has since retired from that position. John Bickers is an Assistant Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. Both Diane and John are citizens of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and experts in Myaamia history and culture. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/372 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationColonial Williamsburg Email ListsThe Power of Place: The Centennial Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 029: Colin Calloway, The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American ArmyEpisode 223: Susan Sleeper-Smith, A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes RegionEpisode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1: Before 1620Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2: 1620 and BeyondEpisode 297: Claudio Saunt, Indian Removal Act of 1830Episode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of PlunderEpisode 362: David W. Penney, Treaties Between the US & American Indian NationsEpisode 367: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1Episode 368: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 2: Legacies Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

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 Europeans practiced, but Indigenous slavery also shared many similarities with the Euro-American practice of African Chattel Slavery. While there is no way to measure the exact impact of slavery upon the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, we do know the practice involved many millions of Indigenous people who were captured, bound, and sold as enslaved people. Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Executive Director of Native Bound-Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery, joins us to discuss the digital project Native Bound-Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/371 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationColonial Williamsburg Email Lists The Power of Place: The Centennial Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 008: Greg O'Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British AmericaEpisode 139: Andrés Reséndez, The Other SlaveryEpisode 184: David J. Silverman, Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violence Transformation of Native AmericaEpisode 197: Brett Rushforth, Native American Slavery in New FranceEpisode 220: Margaret Ellen Newell, New England Indians, Colonists, and Origins of SlaveryEpisode 367: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1Episode 368: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 2: Legacies Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

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 Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and one of the leading experts in the history of witchcraft, joins us to discuss details from his new book, The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/370 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationColonial WIlliamsburg Email Lists"I made this": Black Artists & Artisans Conference, November 10-11, 2023 Complementary Episodes Episode 049: Malcolm Gaskill, How the English Became AmericanEpisode 053: Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of WitchcraftEpisode 192: Brian Regal, The Secret History of the New Jersey DevilEpisode 225: Elaine Forman Crane, The Poison Plot: Adultery & Murder in Colonial NewportEpisode 341: Mairi Cowan, Possession and Exorcism in New France Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

Establishing colonies in North America took an astonishing amount of work. Colonists had to clear trees, eventually remove stumps from newly cleared fields, plant crops to eat and sell, weed and tend those crops, and then they had to harvest crops, and get the crops they intended to sell to the nearest market town, and that was just some of the work involved to establish colonial farms. Colonists did not often perform this work on their own. They enlisted the help of children and neighbors, purchased enslaved people, and used animals. Undra Jeter is the Bill and Jean Lane Director of Coach and Livestock at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He joins us to explore the animals English and British colonists brought with them to North America and used to build, run, and sustain their colonial farms and cities. Animals provided many benefits to early Americans, so Undra also shares information about the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s efforts to bring back the population numbers of some of these historic animal breeds through its rare breeds program. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/369 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg Foundation“I made this”: Black Artists & Artisans Conference, November 10-11, 2023 Factor Meals, Save 50 percent by using benfranklin50 Complementary Episodes Episode 067: John Ryan Fischer, An Environmental History of Early California & HawaiiEpisode 168: Andrea Smalley, Wild By Nature: Colonists and Animals in North AmericaEpisode 187: Kenneth Cohen, Sport in Early AmericaEpisode 234: Richard Bushman, Farms & Farm Families in Early AmericaEpisode 275: Ingrid Tague, Pets in Early America Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

The Brafferton Indian School has a long and complicated legacy. Chartered with the College of William & Mary in 1693, the Brafferton Indian School’s purpose was to educate young Indigenous boys in the ways of English religion, language, and culture. The Brafferton performed this work for more than 70 years, between the arrival of its first students in 1702 and when the last documented student left the school in 1778. This second episode in our 2-episode series about the Brafferton Indian School will focus on the legacy of the Brafferton Indian School and how it and other colonial-era Indian Schools established models for the schools the United States government and religious institutions established during the Indian Boarding School Era. As one of the architects of these later Boarding Schools, Richard Henry Pratt, stated, the purpose of these boarding schools was to “kill the Indian and save the man.” Pratt meant that the United States government desired to assimilate and fully Americanize Indigenous children so there would be no more Native Americans. But Indigenous peoples are resilient, and they have resisted American attempts to extinguish their cultures. So we’ll also hear from three tribal citizens in Virginia who are working in different ways to reawaken long-dormant aspects of their Indigenous cultures. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/368 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationThe American Indian Initiative at Colonial Williamsburg William & Mary, Brafferton InitiativeWilliam & Mary October 28th Lecture: Ned Blackhawk, “The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution” Complementary Episodes Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1: Before 1620Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2: 1620 and BeyondEpisode 310: Rosalyn LaPier, History of the BlackfeetEpisode 314: Colin Calloway, Native Americans in Early American CitiesEpisode 343: Music and Song in Native North AmericaEpisode 353: Brooke Bauer, Women and the Making of Catawba IdentityEpisode 367: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1 Series Music WarPaint SingersWarPaint Singers on YouTube Blue Dot Sessions Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

In 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England granted a royal charter for two institutions of higher education in the Colony of Virginia. The first institution was the College of William & Mary. The second institution was the Indian School at William & Mary, known from 1723 to the present as the Brafferton Indian School. The history of the Brafferton Indian School is a story of power, trade, land, and culture. It’s an Indigenous story. It’s also a story of English, later British, colonialism. Over the next two episodes, we will investigate the Brafferton Indian School and the stories it tells about power, trade, land, culture, and colonialism in early America. We’ll also explore the legacy of the Brafferton and other colonial Indian schools by examining the connections between these schools and the creation of the Indian Boarding Schools that operated within the United States between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. In this episode, we focus on the history and origins of the Brafferton Indian School. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/367 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationThe American Indian Initiative at Colonial WilliamsburgWilliam & Mary, Brafferton InitiativeWilliam & Mary October 28th Lecture: Ned Blackhawk, “The Indigenous Origins of the American Revolution” Complementary Episodes Episode 104: Andrew Lipman, The Saltwater Frontier: Native Americans and Colonists on the Northeastern CoastEpisode 132: Coll Thrush, Indigenous LondonEpisode 171: Jessica Stern, Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade in North AmericaEpisode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1: Before 1620Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2: 1620 and BeyondEpisode 310: Rosalyn LaPier, History of the BlackfeetEpisode 314: Colin Calloway, Native Americans in Early American CitiesEpisode 353: Brooke Bauer, Women and the Making of Catawba Identity Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

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 Constitution, which is why the United States marks Constitution Day each year on September 17. In honor of Constitution Day, we explore the life of a Founder who played a large role in the creation and shaping of the United States Constitution: James Wilson. Michael H. Taylor, Professor of United States History and Political Science at Northeast Community College and author of James Wilson: The Anxious Founder, joins us to investigate the life of James Wilson, who stands as one of the United States’ overlooked founders. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/366 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationFactor Meals Save 50 percent by using code benfranklin50 Complementary Episodes Episode 055: Robb Haberman, John Jay: Forgotten FounderEpisode 094: Cassandra Good, Founding FriendshipsEpisode 107: Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison’s HandEpisode 143: Michael Klarman, The Making of the United States ConstitutionEpisode 153: Committees and Congresses: Governments of the American RevolutionEpisode 212: Researching BiographyEpisode 258: Jane Calvert, “John Dickinson Life, Religion, & Politics” Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

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 Island, and Prince Edward Island were highly contested regions. In fact, the way France and Great Britain fought for presence and control of this region places the Canadian Maritimes among the most contested regions in eighteenth-century North America. Anne Marie Lane Jonah, a historian with the Parks Canada Agency, joins us to explore the history of Prince Edward Island and why Great Britain and France fought over the Canadian Maritime region. This episode originally posted as Episode 283. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/365 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Complementary Episodes Episode 064: Brett Rushforth, Native American Slavery in New FranceEpisode 104: Andrew Lipman, Europeans & Native Americans on the Northeastern CoastEpisode 108: Ann Little, The Many Captivities of Esther WheelwrightEpisode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New OrleansEpisode 189: Sam White, The Little Ice AgeEpisode 232: Christopher Hodson, The Acadian Diaspora Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

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 may have been the most diverse region in early North America. Matthew Powell, a historian of slavery and southern history and the Executive Director of the La Pointe-Krebs House & Museum in Pascagoula, Mississippi, joins us to investigate and explore the Mississippi Gulf Coast and a prominent family who has lived there since about 1718. This episode originally posted as Episode 303. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/364 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationColonial Williamsburg Email Lists Complementary Episodes Episode 037: Kathleen DuVal, Independence LostEpisode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New OrleansEpisode 283: Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Acadie 300 Episode 295: Ibrahima Seck, Whitney Plantation MuseumEpisode 298: Lindsey Shackenback Regele, Manufacturing Advantage Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

About 620 miles north of New Orleans and 62 miles south of St. Louis, sits the town of Ste. Geneviéve, Missouri. Established in 1750 by the French, Ste. Geneviéve reveals much about what it was like to establish a colony in the heartland of North America and what it was like for colonists to live so far removed from seats of imperial power. Claire Casey, a National Park Service interpretative ranger at the Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park, joins us to explore the early American history of Ste. Geneviéve. This episode is originally posted as Episode 318. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/363 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationBrooding Over Bloody Revenge Complementary Episodes Episode 102: William Nester, George Rogers Clark and the Fight for the Illinois CountryEpisode 108: Ann Little, The Many Captivities of Esther WheelwrightEpisode 120: Marcia Zug, Mail Order Brides in Early AmericaEpisode 139: Andrés Reséndez, The Other SlaveryEpisode 308: Jessica Marie Johnson, Slavery and Freedom in French Louisiana Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has an exhibit called Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States & American Indian Nations. This exhibit allows you to see treaties the United States has made with American Indian nations and learn more about those treaties and their outcomes. David W. Penney is the Associate Director of Museum Scholarship, Exhibitions, and Public Engagement at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He’s also an internationally recognized scholar and curator who has a lot of expertise in Native American art history, and he was involved in creating the Nation to Nation exhibit. He joins us to guide us through this exhibit and some of the treaties the United States has made with Indigenous nations. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/362 Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationColonial Williamsburg Email Lists Complementary Episodes Episode 163: The American Revolution in North AmericaEpisode 223: Susan Sleeper-Smith, A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes RegionEpisode 264: Michael Oberg, The Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794 Episode 286: Elections in Early America: Native SovereigntyEpisode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

July 4, 2023 marks the 247th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States. In three short years, we will be marking the 250th anniversary of these events. How are historians thinking about the American Revolution for 2026? What are they discussing when it comes to the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding? Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ronald Angelo Johnson, and Kariann Akemi Yokota join us to answer these questions. All three guests are historians of the American Revolutionary Era who research the American Revolution from different perspectives. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/361 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Complementary Episodes Episode 052: Ronald A. Johnson, Early United States-Haitian DiplomacyEpisode 245: Celebrating the FourthEpisode 277: Whose Fourth of July?Episode 279: Lindsay M Chervinsky, The Cabinet: Creation of an American InstitutionEpisode 306: The Horse’s Tail: Revolution & Memory in Early New York CityEpisode 332: Experiences of Revolution: Occupied PhiladelphiaEpisode 333: Experiences of Revolution: Disruptions in Yorktown Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, informing Texans that all slaves are free. Juneteenth may feel like it is a mid-19th-century moment, but the end of slavery didn’t just occur on one day or at one time. And it didn’t just occur in the mid-19th century. The fight to end slavery was a long process that started during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Kyera Singleton, the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, has spent years researching the lives of the enslaved people who lived and worked on the Royall Plantation and the significant contributions they made to ending slavery in Massachusetts. Kyera joins us to investigate the story of slavery and freedom within the first state in the United States to legally abolish slavery. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/360 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Complementary Episodes Episode 083: Jared Hardesty, Unfreedom: Slavery in Colonial BostonEpisode 170: Wendy Warren, New England BoundEpisode 194: Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, NHS Episode 220: Margaret Newell, New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of SlaveryEpisode 304: Annette Gordon-Reed: On JuneteenthEpisode 324: Andrea Mosterman, New Netherland and SlaveryEpisode 329: Mark Tabbert, Freemasonry in Early AmericaEpisode 351: Nicole Maskiell, Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

“People are complicated” is a truism that holds in the past and the present. Seldom do we find a person where all of their actions and thoughts are black and white. What we see instead is that people are colorful because they aren’t just one thing and they don’t think and act in one way. Human identities are one area where we find a lot of colorfulness and complexity. Most humans have multiple Identities based in geography, nationality, religious affiliation, race and ethnicity, and also gender. Jen Manion, a Professor of History and of Sexuality and Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College and author of the book, Female Husbands: A Trans History, joins us to investigate the early American world of female husbands, people who were assigned female at birth and then transed-gender at some point in their lives to live as men. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/359 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationJuneteenth at Colonial Williamburg Complementary Episodes Episode 002: Cornelia King, “That So Gay” Exhibit at the Library Company of PhiladelphiaEpisode 013: Rachel Hope Cleves, Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early AmericaEpisode 080: Jen Manion, Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons and Prison Life in Early America Episode 266: Johann Neem, Education in Early AmericaEpisode 292: Craft in Early AmericaEpisode 309: Philip Reid, Merchant Ships of the Eighteenth CenturyEpisode 354: John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Gir’s TaleEpisode 357: Eric Jay Dolin, Privateering During the American Revolution Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

For much of the colonial period, Spain claimed almost all of North America as Spanish territory. It displayed this claim on maps and in the administrative units it created to govern this vast territory: New Spain and La Florida. Charles Tingley is a Senior Research Librarian at the St. Augustine Historical Society in St. Augustine, Florida, and an expert in the history of St. Augustine. He joins us to explore the early American history of La Florida through the lens of one of its capitals: the City of St. Augustine. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/358 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationJuneteenth at Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 082: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Information & Communication in the Early American SouthEpisode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New OrleansEpisode 178: Karoline Cook, Muslims & Moriscos in Colonial Spanish AmericaEpisode 241: Molly Warsh, Pearls & the Nature of the Spanish EmpireEpisode 319: Ada Ferrer, Cuba, An Early American HistoryEpisode 334: Brandon Bayne, Missions and Mission Building in New Spain Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

How did the Continental Congress approach creating military forces that could go toe-to-toe with the British military during the American War for Independence? Eric Jay Dolin joins us to answer part of that question by looking at the creation of the United States’ privateer fleet. Dolin is the author of fifteen books about the maritime history of early America, including Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/357 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationJuneteenth at Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 153: Committees and Congresses of the American RevolutionEpisode 161: Smuggling in the American RevolutionEpisode 208: Nathaniel Philbrick, Turning Points of the American RevolutionEpisode 288: Tyson Reeder, Smugglers & Patriots in the 18th-Century Atlantic WorldEpisode 309: Philip Reid, Merchant Ships of the Eighteenth CenturyEpisode 348: Ricardo Herrera, Valley ForgeEpisode 352: James Forten and the Making of the United States Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

In 1682, the first Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Delaware counties met in Chester, Pennsylvania, and adopted “the Great Law,” a humanitarian code that guaranteed the people of Pennsylvania liberty of conscience. “The Great Law” created an environment that not only welcomed William Penn’s fellow Quakers to Pennsylvania but also created space for the migration of other unestablished religions, such as the Lutherans, Schwenkfelders, and Moravians. Paul Peucker, an archivist and the Director of the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, joins us to investigate the establishment of the Moravian Church in North America. Paul is the author of many articles, essays, and books about the Moravians and their history, including Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722-1732. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/356 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationEddie Arning: Artist Exhibition at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 025: Jessica Parr, Inventing George WhitefieldEpisode 075: Peter Drummey, How Archives WorkEpisode 134: Spence McBride, Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary AmericaEpisode 135: Julie Holcomb, Moral CommerceEpisode 173: Marisa Fuentes, Colonial Port Cities and SlaveryEpisode 214: Christopher Grasso, Skepticism & American FaithEpisode 311: Kate Carte, Religion and the American Revolution Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

On April 10th, 1606, King James I granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. Just over a year later, on May 14, 1607, this privately-funded, joint-stock company established the first, permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. What work did the Virginia Company have to do to establish this colony? How much money did it have to raise, and from whom did it raise this money, to support its colonial venture? Misha Ewen, a Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Bristol and author of The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660, joins us to discuss the early history of the Virginia Company and its early investors. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/355 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Complementary Episodes Episode 079: James Horn, What is a Historic Source?Episode 120: Marcia Zug, A History of Mail Order Brides in Early AmericaEpisode 150: Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary SpeculatorEpisode 186: Max Edelson, The New Map of the British EmpireEpisode 213: Rebecca Fraser, The Pilgrims of PlimothEpisode 250: Virginia, 1619Episode 274: Alan Gallay, Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

History tells us who we are and how we came to be who we are. It also allows us to look back and see how far we’ve come as people and societies. Of course, history also has the power to show us how little has changed over time. John Wood Sweet, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of the book, The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History, joins us to investigate the first published rape trial in the United States and how one woman, Lanah Sawyer, bravely confronted the man who raped her by bringing him to court for his crime. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/354 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationWomen’s History Month at Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 020: Kyle Bulthuis, Four Steeples Over the City StreetsEpisode 069: Abby Chandler, Law, Order, and Sexual Misconduct in Colonial New EnglandEpisode 113: Brian Murphy, Building the Empire StateEpisode 174: Thomas Apel, Yellow Fever in the Early American RepublicEpisode 185: Joyce Goodfriend, Early New York City & Its CultureEpisode 190: Jennifer Goloboy, Origins of the American Middle ClassEpisode 225: Elaine Forman Crane, The Poison Plot: Adultery & Murder In Colonial NewportEpisode 257: Catherine O’Donnell, Elizabeth Seton An Early American Life Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter

How did Indigenous people adapt to and survive the onslaught of Indigenous warfare, European diseases, and population loss between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries? How did past generations of Indigenous women ensure their culture would live on from one generation to the next so their people would endure? Brooke Bauer, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of the book Becoming Catawba: Catawba Women and Nation Building, 1540-1840, joins us to investigate these questions and what we might learn from the Catawba. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/353 Join Ben Franklin's World! Subscribe and help us bring history right to your ears! Sponsor Links Colonial Williamsburg FoundationWomen’s History Month at Colonial Williamsburg Complementary Episodes Episode 082: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Information & Communication in the Early American SouthEpisode 158: The Revolutionaries’ ArmyEpisode 223: Susan Sleeper-Smith, A Native American History of the Ohio River Valley & Great Lakes RegionEpisode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of PlunderEpisode 342: Elizabeth Ellis, The Great Power of Small Native Nations Listen! Apple PodcastsSpotify Google Podcasts Amazon Music Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Helpful Links Join the Ben Franklin's World Facebook GroupBen Franklin’s World Twitter: @BFWorldPodcastBen Franklin's World Facebook PageSign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter