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NBN Episodes hosted by Benjamin:
February 21, 2014
Mahogany
The cultural and material history of what is fashionable or "trendy" can be particularly revealing about the time period under study. The most recent …
August 5, 2013
Peculiar Institution
Why is it that the United States continues to enforce the death penalty when the rest of the Western world abolished its use a little over three decad…
May 24, 2013
The Amistad Rebellion
If the moniker of the slave ship Amistad brings to mind images of Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, and Morgan Freeman you are likely not alone. The mo…
December 21, 2012
Among the Powers of the Earth
Many Americans tend to think of 1776 as the year when the United States began making history on its own terms. That is simply untrue. Building on rece…
October 28, 2012
The Market Revolution
The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The market…
September 26, 2012
Cry Liberty
In Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 (Oxford, 2010), Peter C. Hoffer offers a succinct and refreshing new look at the Stono s…