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Ben Franklin's World
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About the show
This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It’s a show for people who love history and who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.
Each episode features conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history.
Latest episodes
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BFW Revisited: The Reintegration of American Loyalists
September 29, 2026 · 49 minWhat would it take for you to forgive a neighbor who sided against you in a civil war? And what would you say to win back a community that you had fought against? In our last episode, we explored loyalism across the Atlantic World and met…
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BFW Revisited: Loyalism in the British Atlantic World
September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minIn the late winter of 1775, colonists in a village outside of New York City hoisted the royal standard of King George III 75 feet into the air. The standard raisers signed their names to a proclamation pledging to defend the king and his…
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BFW Bonus: We Want More History
September 18, 2026 · 21 minAmerican history is in the news a lot these days. We see and hear about fights over monuments, textbooks, and the stories we should include or exclude from our museums and historic markers. What these stories overshadow is the great demand…
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451 The Court-Martial That Put The American Revolution on Trial
September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 5 minIn December 1777, Continental Army Colonel David Henley climbed off his horse to discipline a drunk British prisoner of war who was screaming epithets about Americans and vowing to fight for his king. Henley struck the prisoner, one of…
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BFW Revisited: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
September 8, 2026 · 52 minWhat caused the American Revolution? Taxation without representation? Colonies that had outgrown their dependence on the British Empire? Or something harder to see: a quarrel about power itself and about what a government may rightly do…
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450 Whose Revolution? The Delaware and the War for Independence
September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minIn December 1776, a Delaware Chief named White Eyes stood before the Second Continental Congress. He had not come to declare himself a revolutionary, nor had he come to pledge his loyalty to King George III. White Eyes came to test a…
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BFW Revisited: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1
August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 23 minIn 1723, the College of William & Mary opened the Brafferton building, a permanent home for an Indian School the college had been chartered to run and struggled to fill for its first 30 years. The premise of the Brafferton: take Native…
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449 Stealing America: Indigenous Slavery and the American Revolution
August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minMore than half a million Indigenous people were enslaved within the present-day borders of the United States. Historian Linford Fisher spent fifteen years in archives across North America, the Caribbean, and Britain to investigate this…