Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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.
Each episode features conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Ben Franklin's World podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Edward Duffield, Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, and Gentleman, 1730-1803
Bob Frishman
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
Mary Beth Norton
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
William Clark's World
Describing America in an age of unknowns
Peter Kastor
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tom Paine's America, The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
Seth Cotler
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sealed with Blood
Worst Sacrifice in Memory in Revolutionary America
Sarah Purcell
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Black reconstruction
W.E.B. Du Bois
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Nation Without Borders
Stephen Hahn
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
American Colonies
Alan Taylor
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Separated by their sex
Mary Beth Norton
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Vicious and Immoral
Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
John Gilbert McCurdy
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Engine of Free Expression, Copyright in the State in Early America
Nora Slonimsky
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ar'n't I a Woman?
Female Slaves in the Plantation South
Deborah Gray White
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A revolution in color
Jane Kamensky
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Case of the Officers of Excise
Thomas Paine
Paul Miles
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Running from Bondage, Enslaved Women and the Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
Karen Cook-Bell
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Paul Revere's ride
David Hackett Fischer
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Republican Print, Print Culture in the Age of U.S.
Nation Building, 1770-1870
Trish Loughran
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Liberty's daughters
the Revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800
Mary Beth Norton
