#skystorians #earlymodern #vastearlyamerica kindly note that retirement = library downsizing and potential books of interest are available on Ebay for reasonable price/best offer

Episode 355: Misha Ewen, The Virginia Venture Misha Ewen, author of the Virginia Venture, joins us to discuss the early history of the Virginia Company and its early investors.

Who invested in England’s first American colony—and what were they hoping to gain?

Misha Ewen explores the Virginia Company, the women behind the venture, and what early colonization looked like from across the Atlantic.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/355

#Virginia #VastEarlyAmerica #History

If you’ve ever wondered whether the British attempt to colonize Australia has anything to do with the American Revolution, this episode has your answer! #VastEarlyAmerica

Episode 438: Rick Bell, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World Discover the American Revolution's global history with Rick Bell, from Spain's Florida campaign to Australia's founding.

I had a great time interviewing @rickbell.bsky.social for the latest episode of @bfworld.bsky.social about his new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. #America250 #podcasts #Revolution250 #VastEarlyAmerica benfranklinsworld.com/episode-438-...

If you are a #vastearlyamerica person you really should apply, the collections are... just absurdly rich.

Also, if you do Native studies, the Schoolcraft Collection at the Athenaeum is worth looking at.

Good bloople of bluesky, join me in Duluth! With more in the shout out vein to @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Will Slauter. #bookhistory #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica

Episode 389: Nicole Eustace, Indigenous Justice in Early America Nicole Eustace using details from Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, will take us through one cross-cultural encounter in 1722.

What did justice mean to Indigenous nations in early America? ⚖️

In Ep. 389, Nicole Eustace shares how Native ideas of repair and restoration shaped diplomacy and law.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/389

#IndigenousHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #History #NativeHistory #Pennsylvania #USHistory

Jordan Smith, The Invention of Rum — Clio Digital Media Sugar was the defining commodity of the early modern Atlantic world. The sweetener and its byproducts dominated trade among the four continents that touch the Atlantic Ocean. Today we’re exploring one...

We've got a new edition of Sally Franklin's Bookshelf for you this Sunday, as Jordan Smith discusses his new book, The Invention of Rum. #VastEarlyAmerica www.cliodigital.media/sally/jordan...

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Episode 383: Kevin Dawson, Aquatic Culture in Early America Kevin Dawson joins us to explore African and African American aquatic culture and how that culture impacted colonial America.

Swimming, diving, boat-building—Africans brought deep water knowledge to early America. 🌊

In Ep. 383, Kevin Dawson explores the aquatic traditions that shaped life and labor in the Atlantic world.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/383

#AfricanDiaspora #VastEarlyAmerica #History #USHistory

Episode 351: Nicole Maskiell, Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland An episode about wealth and slavery in New Netherland.

Wealth in New Netherland was built on more than trade—it was built on slavery. ⚖️💰

Nicole Maskiell explores how Dutch families in early New York used enslaved labor to secure status and power.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/351

#SlaveryInAmerica #VastEarlyAmerica #History #NewYorkHistory

395 Benjamin Carp, The Great New York Fire of 1776 When we think about the American Revolution, textbooks, documentaries, and historic sites have trained most of us to think about American triumphs in battles or events when American revolutionaries overcame moments of despair, when all seemed lost, t

In 1776, just days after the British took NYC, fire tore through the city.

Who started it? Rebels? Redcoats?

In Ep. 395, Benjamin Carp digs into the mystery and consequences of the Great Fire.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/395

#VastEarlyAmerica #History #NYC #USHistory #AmericanRevolution

Episode 361: Fourth of July in 2026 Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ronald Angelo Johnson, and Kariann Akemi Yokota join us to answer questions about the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. All three guests are historians of the American Revolutionary Era who research

The U.S. turns 250 in 2026—how will we mark the Fourth of July? 🎆🇺🇸

In Ep. 361, Ben Franklin’s World explores the history of July 4 celebrations—and what the Semiquincentennial might look like.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/361

#FourthofJuly #VastEarlyAmerica #History

Long before it became a vacation destination, the Mississippi Gulf Coast was a colonial crossroads. 🏖️⚓

Ep. 364 explores early French, Spanish, and Indigenous history in this vibrant region.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/364

#GulfCoastHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Mississippi #USHistory

Episode 369: Undra Jeter, Livestock & Animal Breeds in Early America Undra Jeter joins us to explore the animals English and British colonists brought to North America and used to build, run, and sustain their farms and cities.

What do sheep, pigs, and cattle tell us about early America? 🐑🐖🐄

In this episode, Undra Jeter explores how colonial animal breeds shaped agriculture, economy, and daily life.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/369

#AgriculturalHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #History

Genealogy in early America wasn’t just about ancestry—it shaped freedom, power & identity.

Historian Karin Wulf joins us to explore how lineage helped early Americans define themselves.

🎧 Listen: benfranklinsworld.com/416

#History #Genealogy #USHistory #VastEarlyAmerica

“We Stand on a Level:” Black Freemasons Fight for Parity with White Lodges | Readex Cornerstone Laying of Prince Hall Masonic Temple, New York, NY, 1930. Photograph by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983).Source: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Intrepid souls who ventured out into the blizzard in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 7, 1875 might have encountered a singular apparition: a procession of formally-dressed African-American men marching through snow drifts accompanied by “a first-class band.” They were the Brotherhood of Colored Masons, one of many Black-organized masonic lodges that had been fighting literally and symbolically against White hegemony for a...

Who was Prince Hall and what is the legacy of his "brotherhood"?

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #EarlyAmerica

Hey friends who work on #vastearlyamerica, and who have listened to me talk about this project for the last couple years: what major archives do I need to be sure to go to? I've visited Williams College, Fort Ticonderoga, Historic Deerfield (and hopefully will again), @mhs1791.bsky.social,

Library Company names its new chief, the first-ever woman to lead the group in 295 years Jessica Chopin Roney will take over after the Library Company of Philadelphia merges with Temple University. She has existing ties to both institutions.

Swarthmore College's History Department is proud of our former student and distinguished colleague, Jessica Roney, who will become the first woman to be director of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
#history #vastearlyamerica

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We can do comparative/connective if it has a US/North American angle, we can do borderlands, and we can do #VastEarlyAmerica (recent holder worked on early 19th century Hawai'i) but alas it's not a Latin American postdoc (though we do have a Centre of Latin American Studies which hosts them)

Random #vastearlyamerica question: is there any journal that does something to the effect of Notes, short articles, if I had a rumination on Anthony Stoddard's sermon notes? I could probably get it to 4000 words for something like the JEA's Sources & Interpretations, but it's probably easier at 2k.

Genre bending The realist fiction of the eighteenth century took its origin, or at least part of it, from the single-sheet essay-periodicals that were the talk of

"invariably entertaining" and "exuberant, erudite" and "occasionally infuriating": man, this TLS review. i feel seen: excluding the first two, and the adverb "occasionally," this is exactly what my loved ones say about me. #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica #bookhistory
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When ye olde Julian and Gregorian calendars add hours to verifying footnotes and cross-checking sources to set the dates straight, I'm grateful to have been a distance swimmer...early American history is an endurance sport! #amwriting #earlyAmhist #vastearlyAmerica

#Skystorians #VastEarlyAmerica folks - jobs at the @jcblibrary.bsky.social.

412 Joyce Chaplin, The Franklin Stove How did Benjamin Franklin’s stove save energy? What does it reveal about wood, trees, and attempts to control the climate?

Colonial firewood wasn’t just about heat. It fueled:
🏠 Homebuilding
🚢 Shipbuilding
🍲 Cooking
⚔️ Conflict over land

Ben Franklin saw the danger. His stove was part of a bigger energy story we’re still living today. 🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/412

#ClimateChange #History #VastEarlyAmerica

Episode 386: Joseph McGill, Sleeping with the Ancestors In this Juneteenth episode, we will delve into the work of those working to preserve slave dwellings across the United States.

What can we learn by sleeping in a slave dwelling? 🛏️

In Ep. 386, Joseph McGill shares how spending the night where enslaved people once lived helps us honor their lives—and confront the legacy of slavery.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/386

#SlaveDwellingProject #VastEarlyAmerica #History

Episode 411: Paul Kahan, Philadelphia: An Early History Two hundred fifty years ago, in May 1775, delegates from thirteen British North American colonies gathered in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress. Why was Philadelphia chosen as the seat of Congress? What made the city a critical hub for

Philly was the hub where Enlightenment ideas docked, where revolutions brewed, and where politics clashed with profit.

📘 Paul Kahan’s deep dive is a must-hear: benfranklinsworld.com/411

#Podcasts #Philly #History #VastEarlyAmerica #Skystorians

☕ Think tea was the drink of choice in colonial America?

Think again.

Our latest episode reveals why coffee — not tea — became the go-to beverage for early Americans (and no, it wasn’t just about the Boston Tea Party).

🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/429

#VastEarlyAmerica #BostonTeaParty #Coffee

@brookenewman.bsky.social: "The receiver general, an officer charged with managing payments on behalf of the crown, offered the enslaved Africans to the highest bidders in the king’s name."
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC #VastEarlyAmerica
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Screenshot with text: "Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and other political leaders of the early, eastern United States will continue to stride through the pages of our histories, but they will occupy that space as slaveholders as well as political leaders, and they will share that space with other people and places that will help us understand these founders better. A capacious approach to early America shows us a past that was infinitely complex, dynamic, globally connected, and violent. And it also still shows us—better shows us—the origins of an ambitious, powerful, and democratic nation. In short, we need an early American history, but one that fully grasps the depth, breadth, and complexity—the vastness—of early America. That is both good history and good civics."

Historians have had quite a bit to say about #VastEarlyAmerica, but for me, this was always the essence.

Episode 388: Brooke Barbier, John Hancock We examine a different aspect of the Declaration of Independence: the man behind the boldest signature on the document: John Hancock.

We all know John Hancock’s signature—but do we know the man? 🖋️

In Ep. 388, Brooke Barbier reveals how Hancock’s wealth, style, and ambition shaped Boston and the Revolution.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/388

#JohnHancock #VastEarlyAmerica #History #Boston #AmericanRevolution #Revolution250