Bonus: Longfellow's Wayside Inn

Bonus: Longfellow's Wayside Inn

In this bonus episode, we explore a listener requested topic of colonial inns and taverns by investigating the history of the oldest inn still in operation: Longfellow’s Wayside Inn. The Wayside Inn served as the inspiration for Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poetry collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn," in which you will find his poem "The Landlord's Tale," better known as "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/wayside Ask the Historian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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218 How the Dutch Brough Us Santa, Presents, & Treats

218 How the Dutch Brough Us Santa, Presents, & Treats

Have you ever wondered where the Christmas traditions of stockings, presents, and cookies come from? What about jolly, old Saint Nicholas? Who was he and why do we often call him Santa Claus? Peter ...

25 Joulu 201843min

217 Slavery and Freedom in Early Maryland

217 Slavery and Freedom in Early Maryland

How do you uncover the life of an enslaved person who left no paper trail? What can the everyday life of an enslaved person tell us about slavery, how it was practiced, and how some enslaved people m...

18 Joulu 201850min

216 A History of Stepfamilies in Early America

216 A History of Stepfamilies in Early America

What do George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They all grew-up in blended or stepfamilies. Lisa Wilson, the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American History at ...

11 Joulu 201845min

215  A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

215 A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

We tend to view gay marriage as a cultural and legal development of the 21st century. But did you know that some early Americans lived openly as same-sex married couples? Rachel Hope Cleves, a Prof...

4 Joulu 201853min

214 Skpeticism and American Faith

214 Skpeticism and American Faith

Was the early United States a “Christian nation?” Did most of its citizenry accept God and the Bible as the moral authority that bound them together as one nation? Scholars have taken a binary stance...

27 Marras 201857min

213 The Pilgrims of Plimoth

213 The Pilgrims of Plimoth

In 1621, the Pilgrims of Plimoth Colony and their Wampanoag neighbors came together to celebrate their first harvest. Today we remember this event as the first Thanksgiving. But what do we really kno...

20 Marras 201859min

212 Researching Biography (Doing History)

212 Researching Biography (Doing History)

How do historians and biographers reconstruct the lives of people from the past? Good biographies rely on telling the lives of people using practiced historical methods of thorough archival research ...

13 Marras 20181h 10min

Bonus: The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Bonus: The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

As part of the Omohundro Institute's Doing History series on biography, Episode 212 offers us a new conversation with Erica Dunbar, the author of Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of T...

9 Marras 201854min

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