# Nick Bunker

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346 Music and Politics in the Early United States

How did everyday Americans in the early United States use and enjoy music? How did they create and circulate new songs and musical lyrics? Our five-episode series about music in early America continues in this fourth episode about music and politics in the early United States. Billy Coleman, …

292 Craft in Early America

What was everyday life like for those who lived in early America? To understand the everyday lives of early Americans we need to look at the goods they made and how they produced those goods. In essence, nothing explains the everyday as much as the goods in people’s lives. Glenn Adamson, author o…

Bonus Listener Q & A: Young Benjamin Franklin

This special bonus episode introduces the Ben Franklin's World Subscription program and a new monthly Listener Question & Answer feature for subscribers to that program. In this preview, award-winning historian Nick Bunker answers your questions about the life of young Benjamin Franklin. Show Not…

268 BFW Team Favorites: Young Benjamin Franklin

What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the early American past because as a man of “variety” he pursued many interests: literature, poetry, science, business, philosophy, philanthropy, and politics. But …

266 Education in Early America

How did early Americans educate their children? How and when did Americans create a formal system of public education? You sent me these questions for Episode 200: Everyday Life in Early America. You also said you wanted to know more about how early American boys and girls learned the trades they …

243 Revolutionary Print Networks

For the American Revolution to be successful, it needed ideas people could embrace and methods for spreading those ideas. It also needed ways for revolutionaries to coordinate across colonial lines. How did revolutionaries develop and spread their ideas? How did they communicate and coordinate pla…

227 Copyright & Fair Use in Early America

In the 21st century, we are all creators and users of content. We take original photos with our smartphones, generate blog posts, digital videos, and podcasts. Some of us write books and articles. And nearly everyone contributes content to social media. Given all of the information and content we …

221 The Culinary Adventures of Benjamin Franklin

Can food help us better understand the people and events of the past? Can we better understand a person like Benjamin Franklin and who he was by the foods he ate? Rae Katherine Eighmey, an award-winning food historian, author, and cook, joins us to explore the culinary tastes and habits of Benjami…

207 Young Benjamin Franklin

What in the first 40 years of his life made Benjamin Franklin the genius he became? Benjamin Franklin serves as a great window on to the early American past because as a man of “variety” he pursued many interests: literature, poetry, science, business, philosophy, philanthropy, and politics. But …

Escalating Fear And Korean Conflict Nick Bunker, Part Two: Bunker details the dramatic escalation of Cold War tensions NICK-BUNKER-CONTINUED

1947Escalating Fear And Korean ConflictNick Bunker, Part Two: Bunker details the dramatic escalation of Cold War tensions leading up to the June 1950 Korean War outbreak. The discussion highlights the perjury sentencing of Alger Hiss, Joe McCarthy's aggressive anti-communist speech campaign, and St…