Bonus: We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence

Bonus: We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence

What can maps tell us about the past? How do maps affect the way we view events such as the American Revolution? The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library has a new, traveling exhibition called We Are One: Mapping America’s Road from Revolution to Independence, which seeks to help us change the way we look at and explore the tumultuous events that led thirteen colonies to break away from Great Britain and forge a new nation. Michelle LeBlanc, Director of Education and Public Programming at the Leventhal Map Center joins us to explore maps as historical documents and this amazing new exhibit. Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/maps Ask the Historian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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038  Magna Carta & Its Gifts to North America

038 Magna Carta & Its Gifts to North America

Are you ready to time travel? 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document created to limit the powers of King John of England and his successors in 1215. Today, Magna Carta and its f...

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037 Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

037 Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

What battle proved to be the turning point of the American War for Independence? If you answered Saratoga, you are in general agreement with most scholars of the American Revolution. General John Bu...

7 Heinä 201546min

036 Competing Visions of Empire

036 Competing Visions of Empire

How and where did the colonies of North America and the Caribbean fit within the British Empire? The answer to this question depends on whether you explore the views of a British imperial officer, su...

30 Kesä 201552min

Bonus: Lafayette & the Hermione

Bonus: Lafayette & the Hermione

Who was the Marquis de Lafayette? How did he make the Patriots’ success in the American Revolution possible? And why did a group known as the Friends of Hermione-Lafayette in America build an exact re...

26 Kesä 201530min

035 Historic Hudson Valley and Washington Irving

035 Historic Hudson Valley and Washington Irving

Washington Irving was an historian and writer. Some historians and biographers have called him the first great American author.  Today, Michael Lord, Director of Education at Historic Hudson Valley, ...

23 Kesä 201539min

034  Andrew Jackson, Southerner

034 Andrew Jackson, Southerner

The Hero of New Orleans. Old Hickory. General. President of the United States. Andrew Jackson held and embodied all of these titles and nicknames.  During his lifetime, Jackson served as one of the m...

16 Kesä 201551min

033  George Washington and His Library

033 George Washington and His Library

When you think about George Washington, what image comes to mind? Washington the general? Washington the president? Perhaps, Washington the gentleman farmer of Mount Vernon? But did you know that ...

9 Kesä 20151h

032 One Colonial Woman's World

032 One Colonial Woman's World

What was everyday life like for average men and women in early America? Listeners ask this question more than any other question and today we continue to try to answer it. Michelle Marchetti Coughli...

2 Kesä 201552min

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