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Ben Franklin's World, 503 episodes. Page 5 of 6.

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192 The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

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191 A New History of King Philip's War

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190 Origins of the American Middle Class

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189 The Little Ice Age

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188 The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

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187 Sport in Early America

407

186 The New Map of the British Empire

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185 Early New York City and its Culture

409

184 Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

410

183 George Washington's Mount Vernon

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182 Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: The Great Awakening in New England

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181 The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale & Moses Dunbar

413

180 Alexander Hamilton and the Making of American Law

414

Bonus: Listener Q&A About Religion in Early New England

415

179 After the Revolution: Governance During the Critical Period

416

178 Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America

417

177 The Social Life of Maps in America

418

176 The Value of the Enslaved From Womb to Grave

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175 House Divided: The Revolution in Ben Franklin's House

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174 Yellow Fever in the Early American Republic

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173 Colonial Port Cities and Slavery

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172 Spies, Patriots, and Traitors: American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War

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171 Native Americans, British Colonists, and Trade in North America

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170 New England Bound: Slavery in Early New England

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169 The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

426

168 Wild By Nature: Colonists and Animals in North America

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167 The Early History of New Orleans

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166 Freedom and the American Revolution

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165 The Age of Revolutions

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164 The American Revolution in the Age of Revolutions

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163 The American Revolution in North America

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162 Dunmore's New World: The Revolution and the British Empire

433

161 Smuggling and the American Revolution

434

160 The Politics of Tea

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159 The Revolutionary Economy

436

158 The Revolutionaries' Army

437

157 The Revolution's African American Soldiers (Doing History Rev)

438

156 Power of the Press in the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

439

155 Pauline Maier's American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

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154 The Freedoms We Lost (Doing History Rev)

441

153 Committees and Congress: Governments of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

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152 Origins of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

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151 Defining the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

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150 Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator

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149 Benjamin Franklin in London

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148 Betsy Ross

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147 British Soldiers, American War

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146 George Washington's Revolution

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145 Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution

450

144 The Common Cause of the American Revolution

451

143 The Making of the United States Constitution

452

142 A History of Abolition

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141 A Declaration in Draft (Doing History Rev)

454

140 Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea

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139 The Other Slavery: Indian Enslavement in the Americas

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138 Frontier Politics in Early America

457

137 The Washingtons' Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

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136 Material Culture and the Making of America

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135 Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

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134 Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America

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133 The Nat Turner Revolt

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132 Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of the Empire

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131 Thomas Jefferson's Empire of Liberty

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130 Paul Revere's Ride Through History (Doing History Rev)

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129 The Road to Concord, 1775

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128 American Revolutions: A Continental History

467

127 American Enlightenments

468

126 The Reintegration of American Loyalists

469

125 Death, Suicide, and Slavery in British North America

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124 Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America

471

123: Revolutionary Allegiances (Doing History Rev)

472

122 The Men Who Lost America

473

121 The Dutch Moment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World

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120 A History of Mail Order Brides in Early America

475

119 The Heart of the Declaration

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118 The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

477

117 The Life and Ideas of Thomas Jefferson

478

116 Disease & The Seven Years' War

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115 The Early American History of Texas

480

Bonus: History & Historians in the Public (Doing History)

481

114 The History of Genealogy (Doing History)

482

113 Building the Empire State

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112 The Tea Crisis of 1773 (Doing History Revolution)

484

111 India in the Making of Britain and America, 1700-1830

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110 How Genealogists Research (Doing History)

486

109 The American Enlightenment & Cadwallader Colden

487

108 The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

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107 Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention

489

106 The World of John Singleton Copley

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105 How Historians Publish History (Doing History)

491

104 The Saltwater Frontier

492

103 James Monroe & His Estate Highland

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102 George Rogers Clark

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101 How Historians Write About History (Doing History)

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100 Behind-the-Scenes with Liz Covart & Ben Franklin's World

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099 Pirates & Pirate Nests in the British Atlantic World

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098 Birth of the American Tax Man

498

097 How to Organize Your Research (Doing History)

499

096 The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States

500

095 A Tale of Two Bostons