114 The History of Genealogy (Doing History)

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

History has a history and genealogy has a history. And the histories of both affect how and why we study the past and how we understand and view it. Today, we explore why it’s important for us to understand that the practices and processes of history and genealogy have histories by exploring what the history of genealogy reveals about the early American past. Our guide for this exploration is Karin Wulf, a Professor of History at the College of William & Mary and the Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 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. Each episode 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. Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/114 Partner Links Omohundro Institute OI Reader Doing History series Karin's article "Bible, King, and Common Law" is available on the OI Reader Helpful Show Links Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App Complementary Episodes Episode 070: Jennifer Morgan, How Historians Research Episode 084, Zara Anishanslin, How Historians Read Historical Sources Episode 110: Joshua Taylor, How Genealogists Research Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Ben Franklin's world comes from the
0:02.7	Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture.
0:05.7	The Omaha Institute supports the study of early American history
0:09.4	through its publications, conferences, fellowships, and programming.
0:13.3	The OI's goal is to promote excellence in innovation and early American scholarship and to increase
0:18.0	awareness about that scholarship.
0:20.6	Paul Sperry is a successful businessman who is a longtime supporter of the
0:24.2	Omaha Institute and a member of its executive board. Like us, Paul's someone who
0:29.2	loves history and he supports the OSI's mission and its work because he believes that knowledge of the early American past is important to our present day world.
0:38.0	The study of history is critically important, not only for good scholarship or frankly for good citizenship you know both as we look
0:45.4	out as Americans and also as world citizens or life is rich and complex and varied and nuanced and the best scholarship in history reflects all of that and
0:58.4	that's really where the Omaha Institute shines I think through its William and Mary quarterly, you know its book programs, its conferences, it really provides I think the best view we've got in terms of you know early American history
1:16.3	welcome to Ben Franklin's world
1:18.2	podcast about early American history with Liz
1:20.8	Kovart the study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can
1:25.8	affect the better future. Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people
1:30.8	and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.
1:34.9	And now here's your host, Liz Colart.
1:37.7	Hello and welcome to episode 114 of Ben Franklin's world, the podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about
1:45.1	how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day
1:48.9	world we live in. In the last episode of the Doing History, How Historians Work series, we explored the world of professional genealogy.
1:56.5	Because like history, genealogy studies people, and it's a field of study that actually allows us to investigate our personal pasts.
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