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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…

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Ben Franklin's World

BFW Revisited: Loyalism in the British Atlantic World

BFW Bonus: We Want More History

451 The Court-Martial That Put The American Revolution on Trial

BFW Revisited: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

450 Whose Revolution? The Delaware and the War for Independence

BFW Revisited: The Brafferton Indian School, Part 1

449 Stealing America: Indigenous Slavery and the American Revolution

BFW Revisited: American Expansion & the Political Economy of Plunder

448 The Declaration of Independence as American Scripture

BFW Revisited Threads of Power

447 The Other Committee Members: Robert R. Livingston, Roger Sherman, and the Declaration of Independence

447 The Other Committee Members: Robert R. Livingston, Roger Sherman, and the Declaration of Independence

BFW Revisited: A Declaration in Draft, 2026

446 The Declaration of Independence at 250

445 How Independence Happened, Pt 3: The Articles of Confederation

444 How Independence Happened, Part 2: The Model Treaty

443 How Independence Happened, Part 1: The Lee Resolution

BFW Revisited: Reading the Declaration of Independence for Equality

442 Everyday Military Life in the American Revolution

BFW Revisited: Valley Forge

441 The Escapes of David George

BFW Revisited: Running from Bondage in the American Revolution

440 Jefferson's Cut Grievance and the British Monarchy's Role in Slavery

BFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July?

439 When the Declaration of Independence Was News

BFW Revisited: Age of Revolutions

438 The American Revolution & the Fate of the World

BFW Revisited: British-Occupied Philadelphia, 1777–1778

437 Civilian Life in America's Occupied Cities

BFW Revisited: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

436 Fort Ticonderoga & Henry Knox's Noble Train of Artillery

435 Common Sense at 250: The Unfinished Work of Democracy, A Live Conversation

434 Freeborn Black Soldiers in the American Revolution

BFW Revisited: The American Revolution's African American Soldiers

433 Entangled Revolutions: Haiti, France, and the American Revolution

BFW Revisited: The Marquis de Lafayette

432 How France and Spain Helped Win the American Revolution

BFW Revisited: The Common Cause

431 Common Sense at 250: The Pamphlet That Sparked a Revolution

BFW Revisited: The Power of the Press in the American Revolution

430 The Founding Father of American Medicine: Benjamin Rush

BFW Revisited: Smuggling and the American Revolution

429 Coffee in Early America: Why Americans Really Drink Coffee

428 America's Forgotten Quest to Link Two Oceans

427 How States Are Planning the 250th: Commemorating the American Revolution in 2026

BFW Revisited: The Mayflower

426 Indigenous Agriculture and the Hidden Science of Native Foodways

425 Ken Burns' The American Revolution

424 Dunmore's Proclamation & the American Revolution in Virginia

BFW Revisited: Disruptions in Yorktown

423 The Forgotten Artists of the American Revolution

BFW Revisited: The World of John Singleton Copley

422: Plantation Goods: How Northern Industry Fueled Slavery

BFW Revisited: Origins of American Manufacturing

421 Loyalism and Revolution in Georgia

BFW Revisited: Loyalism in the British Atlantic World

420: Creating the U.S. Federal Government

BFW Revisited: Women & the Constitutional Moment of 1787

419 The North Carolina Regulator Movement

BFW Revisited: The Tory's Wife

418 The Driver's Story

BFW Revisited: The Business of Slavery

417 Roger Williams, Rogue Puritan

BFW Revisited: The History of Genealogy

416: Lineage: Genealogy in Early America

BFW Revisited: A Declaration in Draft

415: The Many Declarations of Independence

414 Queerness and Reputation in Revolutionary America

413 Dr. Joseph Warren & the Battle of Bunker Hill

BFW Revisited: On Juneteenth

412 The Franklin Stove

BFW Revisited: The Early History of the U.S. Congress

411 Philadelphia: An Early History

BFW Revisited: Founding Friendships

BFW Revisited: Founding Friendships

410 The World's First Personal Advice Column

BFW Revisited: Paul Revere's Ride Through History

409 The Battles of Lexington & Concord, 1775

BFW Revisited: The Road to Concord