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Ben Franklin's World Ben Franklin's World Liz Covart NewsK365 NewsK365 NewsK365 The Backroads Bill Podcast The Backroads Bill Podcast North Bay Echo Cosmic Peach Cosmic Peach Julia Hamilton Classic Comedy of Old Time Radio Classic Comedy of Old Time Radio Ronald Ecklebarger Storia&Cultura Storia&Cultura PierJC This Day in History This Day in History The HISTORY Channel Commuter Bible OT Commuter Bible OT John Ross Commuter Bible NT Commuter Bible NT John Ross The Strange History Podcast The Strange History Podcast Strange History 张奥同学 张奥同学 sgarly奥 The Q Division: A James Bond Rewatch Podcast The Q Division: A James Bond Rewatch Podcast Gavin Mevius and Chels Eichholz Historical Travel Stories💕旅行の歷史故事 Historical Travel Stories💕旅行の歷史故事 Lawrence An Timeline, l'Histoire en Podcast Timeline, l'Histoire en Podcast Richard Fremder Daily Sports History Daily Sports History Ethan Reese Omnibus Omnibus Omnibus Non spegnere la luce Non spegnere la luce Michele D'Innella e Giacomo Giaquinto Geschichten aus der Geschichte Geschichten aus der Geschichte Richard Hemmer und Daniel Meßner Tarikh Be Revayat e Movarekh | پادکست تاریخ به روایت مورخ Tarikh Be Revayat e Movarekh | پادکست تاریخ به روایت مورخ PersianBMS Fundamental Principle Fundamental Principle Patrick and Jerome Crimepod Puerto Rico Crimepod Puerto Rico Armando Torres Morning Cup of Murder Morning Cup of Murder Morning Cup of Murder Awesome Movie Year Awesome Movie Year Awesome Movie Year A História repete-se A História repete-se Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho e Lourenço Pereira Coutinho Past Present Future Past Present Future David Runciman This Day in Sports History This Day in Sports History Thrive Sweet Productions Going Hollywood - Movies and Television from the Golden Age to Today Going Hollywood - Movies and Television from the Golden Age to Today Brad Shreve & Tony Maietta Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris Lore Lore Aaron Mahnke The Movie Guide with Maltin & Davis The Movie Guide with Maltin & Davis The Four Finger Discount Network. Ware Misdaad Ware Misdaad Patrick Bernauw Today in Texas History Today in Texas History Bryan Broadcasting Strangeology Strangeology Strangeology Podcast Le Cours de l'histoire Le Cours de l'histoire France Culture Witness History Witness History BBC World Service Epochentrotter - erzählte Geschichte Epochentrotter - erzählte Geschichte Katharina Gedigk und Marvin Gedigk Well, I Laughed Well, I Laughed Well I Laughed Podcast
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Ben Franklin's World

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446 The Declaration of Independence at 250

July 07, 2026 12:00am 46 min

250 years after its signing, the Declaration of Independence remains an unfinished document. Its famous assertion "that all men are created equal" and endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

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

June 30, 2026 12:00am 1:25

The man Congress chose to draft the United States’ first constitution refused to vote for independence. John Dickinson wrote a bold plan, one with a strong central government, religious liberty protections that included ...

444 How Independence Happened, Part 2: The Model Treaty

June 23, 2026 12:00am 1:18

Declaring independence on July 2, 1776 was only the beginning. To actually become a nation, the United States needed something else: foreign allies, international recognition, and the credibility to negotiate as an equal...

443 How Independence Happened, Part 1: The Lee Resolution

June 16, 2026 12:00am 1:17

Declaring independence on July 2, 1776, was only the beginning. To actually become a nation, the United States needed something else: foreign allies, international recognition, and the credibility to negotiate as an equa...

BFW Revisited: Reading the Declaration of Independence for Equality

June 09, 2026 12:00am 51 min

On July 4th, 2026, the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence announced a new nation to the world. But how well do we actually know the document we're celebrating? Most of us can recite "We h...

442 Everyday Military Life in the American Revolution

June 02, 2026 12:00am 1:23

When we picture the American Revolution, we picture battles. But for the men and women who actually lived and fought in it, the Revolution was also a job with mess rotations, night watches, short rations, and children un...

BFW Revisited: Valley Forge

May 26, 2026 12:00am 1:08

Most of us learned the same story: During the winter at Valley Forge, George Washington's army suffered and endured. Ragged soldiers huddled together in frozen huts and gnawed on shoe leather for food. But what if that s...

441 The Escapes of David George

May 19, 2026 12:00am 1:15

When David George lay sick with smallpox in Savannah during the Revolutionary War, he faced three possible outcomes: death, re-enslavement, or freedom. Greg O'Malley, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, follows David ...

BFW Revisited: Running from Bondage in the American Revolution

May 12, 2026 12:00am 57 min

She fled on horseback in the thick of war. Her six-year-old son rode with her. The white tailor at her side would pass, when anyone asked, as her husband. Her name was Sarah. She was one of tens of thousands of enslaved ...

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

May 05, 2026 12:00am 1:16

Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence contained 28 grievances against King George III — not 27. The final grievance, the one Congress cut before signing, accused the British king of waging cruel war...

BFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July?

April 28, 2026 12:00am 1:15

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society and asked one of the most searing questions in American history: "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?" To answer Douglass...

439 When the Declaration of Independence Was News

April 21, 2026 12:00am 1:17

The Second Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776, but it had absolutely no plan for telling the world about it. Congress sent just one copy of the Declaration to France. It was lost at sea. Printers...

BFW Revisited: Age of Revolutions

April 14, 2026 12:00am 1:20

Between 1763 and 1848, revolutions swept across four continents. We tend to remember three of them — the American, the French, and the Haitian Revolutions. But what about all the rest? And what connected them to each oth...

438 The American Revolution & the Fate of the World

April 07, 2026 12:00am 1:11

What if the American Revolution didn't just create the United States, but also created Australia? Most of us learned about the Revolution as a story of thirteen North American colonies pushing back against a distant king...

BFW Revisited: British-Occupied Philadelphia, 1777–1778

March 31, 2026 12:00am 1:10

In September 1777, just fourteen months after declaring independence, Philadelphia fell to the British Army. For nearly nine months, the new nation's capital was occupied territory. But what did that actually mean for th...

437 Civilian Life in America's Occupied Cities

March 24, 2026 12:00am 1:05

The British Army is at your door. They need a room. What do you do? For thousands of civilians living in cities occupied during the American War for Independence — Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport, Charleston, Sav...

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

March 17, 2026 12:00am 1:01

250 years ago, the British evacuated Boston: driven out by cannon that had traveled 300 miles from Fort Ticonderoga. But where did the plan for those cannons take shape?In this Revisited episode, we return to our convers...

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

March 10, 2026 12:00am 1:27

On March 17, 1776, the British evacuated Boston, driven out by cannon hauled 300 miles through winter wilderness from a crumbling fort in upstate New York. Join Matthew Keagle, Curator at Fort Ticonderoga, as we trace th...

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

March 03, 2026 12:00am 1:23

In January 1776, Thomas Paine told the American colonies to break free from their king. But what was supposed to come next? 250 years later, that question still doesn't have a good answer. To mark the anniversary of *Com...

434 Freeborn Black Soldiers in the American Revolution

February 24, 2026 12:00am 1:13

What would you fight for if you were free but still not equal? In 1777, brothers William and Benjamin Frank answered that question by enlisting in the Second Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Army. Freeborn men of...

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