For Your Listening Pleasure

Here are some podcast episodes I’ve enjoyed recently, beyond those every audiophiliac fan of eighteenth-century American history should visit regularly, such as the Junto Cast, Ben Franklin’s World, and Colonial Williamsburg’s Past and Present.

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg: “The Wealth of Nations,” the seminal economic book by Adam Smith (shown here).

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: “The Lunar Society of Birmingham” (mp3 download).

Footnoting History: “Jean Hardouin and the Phantom Time Conspiracies”.

BackStory with the American History Guys: in “The Middling Sort”, the segment “On the Edge” about Elizabeth Pratt of Newport.

C-Span’s Lectures on History: Timothy Wolters on “Colonial America and King George’s War.” It’s possible that this conflict in the 1740s had a bigger effect on how the New Englanders of 1775 viewed military conflict than the more recent French & Indian War.