History is about people, but what do we know about the people behind history’s scenes?
Who are the people who tell us what we know about our past? And how do they come to know what they know?
Today, we begin our year-long “Doing History” series with a special bonus episode about historians and why they do the work they do.
About the Series
Doing History episodes will introduce you to historians who will tell you what they know about the past and reveal how they came to their knowledge.
Series episodes will air on the last Tuesday of each month in 2016.
This series is part of a partnership between Ben Franklin’s World and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
About the Show
Ben Franklin’s World is a podcast about early American history.
It is a show for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world.
Each episode features a conversation with a historian who helps us shed light on important people and events in early American history.
Episode Summary
In this episode, we speak with four accomplished historians:
Rebecca Onion, the History Writer at Slate.com and a visiting scholar at Ohio University.
Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Chair of American History at the University of Virginia and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor of History at Harvard University and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven books.
Caroline Winterer, the Director of the Stanford University Humanities Center and co-author of the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project.
These four historians share what they think the study of history is, why they do the work they do, and how they present their work to the world.
What You’ll Discover
• How historians define history
• Why historians study the past
• What the past can teach us about the present
• How historians present their work to the world
• The Mapping the Republic of Letters Project
• The Slate Vault blog
• Slate Academy: History of American Slavery podcast
• Benjamin Franklin’s social network
Links to People, Places, and Publications
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
• Mapping the Republic of Letters
• The Slate Vault
• Slate Academy: History of American Slavery podcast
• Rebecca Onion
• Alan Taylor
• Laurel Ulrich
• Caroline Winterer
• The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
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