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New Book, Programs Planned On Hamilton-Burr Letters

December 27, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

letter exchanged between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron BurrFenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown has received funding for new programs and a publication based on 35 letters between American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr – the man who killed him in a duel in 1804.

These documents, although familiar to historians, have remained largely unknown to the public until recently when they were brought to light in the song “Your Obedient Servant” from the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. [Read more…] about New Book, Programs Planned On Hamilton-Burr Letters

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Education, Fenimore Art Museum, PolHist

Freedoms We Lost in the American Revolution

October 11, 2017 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldDeclaring independence from Great Britain required the formation of new governments.

But why did Americans want and need new governments? And how did their interactions and experiences with their old, colonial governments inform their decisions to create new governments?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History, Barbara Clark Smith, a curator in the division of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the author of The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America (The New Press, 2010), leads us on an exploration of how Americans interacted with their government before the American Revolution and how the Revolution changed their interaction and ideas about government. You can listen to the podcast here: www.benfranklinsworld.com/154

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Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Podcasts, PolHist, Political History

David Garrow’s Life of Barack Obama

June 16, 2017 by Bob Cudmore Leave a Comment

The Historians LogoThis week on The Historians Podcast, Pulitzer Prize winning author David Garrow discusses his critical and massive book on the formative years of the 44th President of the United States, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (Morrow, 2017). Listen to the podcast here.     [Read more…] about David Garrow’s Life of Barack Obama

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Black History, Books, Podcasts, PolHist

Nat Turner’s Revolt, 1831

May 17, 2017 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldThe institution of African slavery in North America began in late August 1619 and persisted until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in December 1865.

Over those 246 years, many slaves plotted and conspired to start rebellions, but most of the plotted rebellions never took place. Slaveholders and whites discovered them before they could begin. Therefore, North America witnessed only a handful of slave revolts between 1614 and 1865. Nat Turner’s Rebellion in August 1831 stands as the most deadly.

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History, Patrick Breen, an Associate Professor of History at Providence College and author of The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt (Oxford University Press, 2016), joins us to investigate the ins and outs of this bloodiest of North American slave revolts. You can listen to the podcast here: www.benfranklinsworld.com/133

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: Black History, PolHist, Slavery

NYC Community Center Archiving the LGBTQ Revolution

January 10, 2017 by Michael Green 2 Comments

lgbt achives and libraryTucked away on the 4th floor of a much-repurposed 1850s school building in Greenwich Village, the LGBT Community Center’s National History Archive is a cultural and historical refuge-within-a-sanctuary.

The Community Center has been operating at 208 W. 13th Street since 1983. The entire building is intended to be a safe and welcoming place “where everyone is celebrated for who they are.” Today, the Center is an effervescent hub, and sponsors a broad-range of activities and programs for the lesbian, gay and transgender community, including health and wellness, arts and entertainment, and counseling. [Read more…] about NYC Community Center Archiving the LGBTQ Revolution

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Archives, Gender, Greenwich Village, LGBTQ, NYC, PolHist

The American Revolution and the War That Won It

September 16, 2015 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldIn this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, we discuss the political and military aspects of the American Revolution with John Ferling, professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia and author of Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It (Bloomsbury, 2015).  You can listen to the podcast here: www.benfranklinsworld.com/046

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Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: American Revolution, milhist, Podcasts, PolHist, Political History, Twitterstorians

New York’s Long History of Peace Activism

June 24, 2015 by Lawrence Wittner 2 Comments

Vietnam Veterans Against the War take part in an anti-war march in New YorkAs a scholarly specialist on the American peace movement, I am sometimes telephoned for background information by journalists writing articles about current demonstrations against war or against nuclear weapons. Almost invariably, they have no idea that the American peace movement has a rich history. Or, if they realize that it does have such a history, they have no idea that that history goes back further than the Vietnam War. This is a very big and unfortunate gap in their knowledge. [Read more…] about New York’s Long History of Peace Activism

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Greenwich Village, New York City, Peace, PolHist, Political History, Urban History, womens history, World War One

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