Ben Franklin's World: Early American History

A podcast and newsletter about the people, places, and events that made early America and shape our present-day world

Curious about how early America actually worked, and how it still shapes the world you live in? Each week on the Ben Franklin's World podcast, historian Liz Covart, Ph.D., sits down with the scholars who study early American history to explore the people, places, and events between 1450 and 1825. Not myths. The evidence, in plain, language. Winner of the Academy of Podcasters' 2017 Best History Podcast Award and the Daughter of the American Revolution's inaugural Franklin New Media Award, Ben Franklin's World has been downloaded more than 14 million times, and reaches lifelong learners, teachers, family historians, and heritage travelers in more than 100 countries. The newsletter goes further: It investigates what doesn't fit in our episodes, what to read next, and how the past connects to the present. Two to three emails a week. No hot takes, no jargon — just history, told well.