Ben Franklin's World

Juneteenth is a state holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the day slavery ended in Texas. Over the last decade, a push to make Juneteenth a national holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States has gained momentum.What do we know about Juneteenth and its origins?Annette Gordon-Reed, an award-winning historian at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, is a native Texan and she joins us to discuss the early history of Texas and the origins of the Juneteenth holiday with details from her book, On Juneteenth.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/304 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 067, John Ryan Fischer, Cattle Colonialism🎧 Episode 115: Andrew Torget, The Early History of Texas🎧 Episode 117: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Life and Ideas of Thomas Jefferson🎧 Episode 139: Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery🎧 Episode 209: Considering Biography🎧 Episode 250: Virginia, 1619🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery🎧 Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/303 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 037: Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost🎧 Episode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans🎧 Episode 283: Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Acadie 300🎧 Episode 295: Ibrahima Seck, Whitney Plantation Museum🎧 Episode 298: Lindsey Shackenback Regele, Manufacturing Advantage  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before its eradication in 1980, smallpox was the most feared disease in many parts of the world. Known as the “king of terrors” and the “disease of diseases” the search for a way to lessen and avoid smallpox was on!How did vaccination come about? What are vaccination’s connections to smallpox inoculation? And how did news and practice of vaccination spread throughout North America? These questions will be our focus in this second, and final, episode in our “From Inoculation to Vaccination” series.In this episode, we join experts Dr. René Najera, Farren Yero, and Andrew Wehrman for a journey through the history of smallpox, the creation of the world’s first vaccine, and first mass public health initiative. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/302 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 005 Jeanne Abrams, Revolutionary Medicine 🎧 Episode 116 Erica Charters, Disease & the Seven Years’ War🎧 Episode 174 Thomas Apel, Yellow Fever in the Early American Republic🎧 Episode 263 Sari Altschuler, The Medical Imagination🎧 Episode 273 Victoria Johnson, David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic🎧 Episode 276: Stephen Fried, Benjamin Rush🎧 Episode 301 From Inoculation to Vaccination  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smallpox was the most feared disease in North America and in many parts of the world before its eradication in 1980. So how did early Americans live with smallpox and work to prevent it? How did they help eradicate this terrible disease?Over the next two episodes, we’ll explore smallpox in North America. We’ll investigate how smallpox came to North America, how North Americans worked to contain, control, and prevent outbreaks of the disease, and how the story of smallpox is also the story of immunization.In this episode, we join experts Dr. René Najera, Farren Yero, Ben Mutschler, and Andrew Wehrman for a journey through the history of smallpox and the world’s first immunization procedure: inoculation. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/301 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 005: Jeanne Abrams, Revolutionary Medicine 🎧 Episode 116: Erica Charters, Disease & the Seven Years’ War🎧 Episode 174: Thomas Apel, Yellow Fever in the Early American Republic🎧 Episode 263 Sari Altschuler, The Medical Imagination🎧 Episode 273: Victoria Johnson, David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic🎧 Episode 276: Stephen Fried, Benjamin Rush  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do historians wish more people better understood about early American history and why do they wish people had that better understanding?In celebration of the 300th episode of Ben Franklin’s World, we posed these questions to more than 30 scholars. What do they think?Join the celebration to discover more about Early America and take a behind-the-scenes tour of your favorite history podcast.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/300 REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can a portrait reveal about the history of colonial British America?Portraits were both deeply personal and yet collaborative artifacts left behind by people of the past. When historians look at multiple portraits created around the same time and place, their similarities can reveal important social connections, trade relationships, or cultural beliefs about race and gender in early American history. Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Associate Curator of American Art at the Chazen Museum of Art and the researcher behind the digital project Colonial Virginia Portraits, leads us on an exploration of portraiture and what it can reveal about the early American past. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/299 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 024: Kimberly Alexander, 18th-Century Fashion & Material Culture🎧 Episode 084: Zara Anishanslin, How Historians Read Historical Sources🎧 Episode 106: Jane Kamensky, The World of John Singleton Copley🎧 Episode 136: Jennifer Van Horn, Material Culture and the Making of America🎧 Episode 292: Glenn Adamson, Craft in Early America    REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever stopped to think about how the United States became a manufacturing nation? Have you ever wondered how the United States developed not just products, but the technologies, knowledge, and machinery necessary to manufacture or produce various products?Lindsay Schakenbach Regele has.Lindsay is an Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the author of Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848, and she joins us today to lead our exploration into the early American origins of industrialization.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/298 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 098: Gautham Rao, Birth of the American Tax Man🎧 Episode 113: Brian Murphy, Building the Empire State🎧 Episode 140: Tamara Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery🎧 Episode 292: Glen Adamson, Craft  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the Caribbean, wanting land for farms and settlement so they found ways to acquire lands from indigenous peoples by the means of negotiation, bad-faith dealing, war, and violence.The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is deeply rooted in early American history.Claudio Saunt, a scholar of Native American history at the University of Georgia, and author of the book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, joins us to discuss the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how Native Americans in the southeastern part of the United States were removed from their homelands and resettled in areas of southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma. 
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 034: Mark Cheatham, Andrew Jackson, Southerner🎧 Episode 158: The Revolutionaries’ Army🎧 Episode 162: Dunmore’s World🎧 Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America🎧 Episode 286: Elections in Early America: Native Sovereignty REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there anything more we can know about well-researched and reported events like the Boston Massacre?Are there new ways of looking at oft-taught events that can help us see new details about them, even 250 years after they happened?Serena Zabin, a Professor of History at Carleton College in Minnesota and the author of the award-winning book, The Boston Massacre: A Family History, joins us to discuss the Boston Massacre and how she found a new lens through which to view this famous event that reveals new details and insights.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/296 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 159: Serena Zabin, The Revolutionary Economy🎧 Episode 228: Eric Hinderaker, The Boston Massacre🎧 Episode 229: Patrick Griffin, The Townshend Moment🎧 Episode 230: Mitch Kachun, The First Martyr of Liberty🎧 Episode 294: Mary Beth Norton, 1774: The Long Year of Revolution REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it take to create a museum? How can a museum help visitors grapple with a very uncomfortable aspect of their nation’s past?Ibrahima Seck, a member of the History Department at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, author of the book, Bouki Fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860, and the Director of Research of the Whitney Plantation museum, leads us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Whitney Plantation and through the history of slavery in early Louisiana.Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/295 Complementary Episodes🎧 Episode 017: François Furstenberg, When the United States Spoke French🎧 Episode 124: James Alexander Dun, Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America🎧 Episode 125: Terri Snyder, Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America🎧 Episode 137: Erica A. Dunbar, The Washingtons’ Runaway Slave, Ona Judge🎧 Episode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans🎧 Episode 281: Caitlin Rosenthal, The Business of Slavery🎧 Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt  REQUEST A TOPIC📨 Topic Request Form📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.comWHEN YOU'RE READY🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener CommunityLISTEN 🎧🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music🛜 PandoraCONNECT🦋 Liz on Bluesky👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn🛜 Liz’s WebsiteSAY THANKS💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices