344 Music in British North America
Our 5-episode series about music in Early America continues with this second episode that seeks to answer your questions about music in Early America. David Hildebrand is a musicologist and an expert on early American music. His research specialty is in Anglo-American music, and he joins us to answer your questions. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/344 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 219: Adrian Covert, Taverns in Early America 🎧 Episode 250: Virginia, 1619 🎧 Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1 🎧 Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2 🎧 Episode 343: Chad Hamill, The Musical Landscape of Native America REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 Marras 202241min
343 Music and Song in Native North America
What was music like in Early America? How did different early Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and White Americans—integrate and use music in their daily lives? Your questions about music inspired this 5-episode series about music in Early America. Our exploration begins with music in Native America. Chad Hamill, a Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University, is an ethnomusicologist who studies Native American and Indigenous music. He will guide us through Native North America’s musical landscapes before European colonization. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/343 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 163: The American Revolution in North America 🎧 Episode 290: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 1 🎧 Episode 291: The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2 🎧 Episode 297: Claudio Saunt, Indian Removal Act of 1830 🎧 Episode 310: Rosalyn LaPier, History of the Blackfeet 🎧 Episode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder 🎧 Episode 342: Elizabeth Ellis, The Great Power of Small Native Nations REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Marras 202247min
342 The Great Power of Small Native Nations
Did you know that small Native American nations had the power to dictate the terms of French colonization in the Gulf South region? Elizabeth Ellis, an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, joins us on an exploration of the uncovered and recovered histories of the more than 40 distinct and small Native nations who called the Gulf South region home during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ellis is the author of The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/342 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 037: Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost 🎧 Episode 064: Brett Rushforth, Native American Slavery in New France 🎧 Episode 082: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Information & Communication in the early American South 🎧 Episode 139: Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery 🎧 Episode 171: Jessica Stern, Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade 🎧 Episode 233: Gwenn Miller, A History of Russian America 🎧 Episode 251: Cameron Strang, Frontiers of Science 🎧 Episode 303: Matthew Powell, La Pointe-Krebs House REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Marras 20221h 13min
341 Possession and Exorcism in New France
Prepare for tricks, treats, and time travel! In honor of Halloween, we’re traveling back to the mid-seventeenth century to investigate a case of demonic possession and the practice of exorcism in New France. Mairi Cowan, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, joins us to investigate the life of a young French woman named Barbe Hallay and her demonic possession. Cowan is the author of The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/341 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 108: Ann Little, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelright 🎧 Episode 197: Brett Rushforth, Native American Slavery in New France 🎧 Episode 278: Sarah Pearsall, Polygamy: An Early American History 🎧 Episode 283: Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Acadie 300 🎧 Episode 318: Ste. Geneviéve National Historical Park 🎧 Episode 334: Brandon Bayne, Missions and Mission Building in New Spain REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 Loka 20221h 2min
340: Prisoners of War and the War of 1812
The War of 1812 is an under-known conflict in United States history. It’s not a war that many Americans think about or dwell upon. And it was not a war that the United States can claim it clearly won. Nicholas Guyatt, a Professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge, joins us to investigate the War of 1812 and the experiences of American prisoners of war using details from his book, The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/340 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 048: Kenneth Miller, Enemy Captives During the War for Independence 🎧 Episode 051: Catherine Cangany, A History of Early Detroit 🎧 Episode 076: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Citizen Sailors 🎧 Episode 080: Jen Manion, Liberty’s Prisoners 🎧 Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States 🎧 Episode 098: Gautham Rao, Birth of the American Tax Man 🎧 Episode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 Loka 20221h 18min
339 Women and the Constitutional Moment of 1787
Between May 25 and September 17, 1787, delegates from each of the United States’ thirteen states assembled in Philadelphia for an event we now call the Constitutional Convention. What do we know about the moment of the United States Constitution’s creation? What was happening around the Convention, and what issues were Americans discussing and debating as the Convention’s delegates met? Mary Sarah Bilder, an award-winning historian and the Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, joins us to investigate the context of the United States Constitution’s creation with details from her book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/048 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode107: Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison’s Hand 🎧 Episode 137: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Ona Judge, The Washington’s Runaway Slave 🎧 Episode 255: Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens 🎧 Episode 259: American Legal History & the Bill of Rights 🎧 Episode 276: Stephen Fried, Benjamin Rush 🎧 Episode 285: Elections & Voting in Early America 🎧 Episode 323: Michael Witgen, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder 🎧 Episode 332: Experiences of Revolution: Occupied Philadelphia REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 Syys 20221h 15min
338 The Early History of the United States Senate
On September 17, 1787, thirty-nine delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution and submitted it to the states for ratification. In honor of Constitution Day, we join three historians from the Senate Historical Office to investigate Article 1 of the Constitution and its creation of the United States Senate. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/338 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 040: Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon, For Fear of an Elective King 🎧 Episode 078: Rachel Shelden: Washington Brotherhood 🎧 Episode 107: Mary Sarah Bilder, Madison’s Hand 🎧 Episode 143: Michael Klarman, The Making of the United States Constitution 🎧 Episode 153: Committees and Congresses: Governments of the American Revolution 🎧 Episode 202: An Early History of the United States Congress 🎧 Episode 279: Lindsay Chervinsky, The Cabinet 🎧 Episode 285: Elections and Voting in the Early Republic REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Syys 20221h 20min
337 Early America's Trade with China
What made trade with China so important to the new United States that one of Americans’ first acts after securing the United States’ independence was to establish a trade with China and other Southeast Asian countries? Deal Norwood, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware, joins us to explore the lure of trade with China with details from his book, Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/337 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 098: Gautham Rao, Birth of the American Tax Man 🎧 Episode 111: Jonathan Eacott, India in the Making of Britain & America 🎧 Episode 112: Mary Beth Norton, The Tea Crisis of 1773 🎧 Episode 160: The Politics of Tea 🎧 Episode 298: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Origins of American Manufacturing REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Elo 20221h 1min
