167 Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The French established New Orleans and the greater colony of Louisiana in 1717. By 1840, New Orleans had become the 3rd largest city in the United States. How did that happen?

How did New Orleans transform from a sleepy, minor French outpost into a large and important early American city with a thriving, bustling port?

Eberhard “Lo” Faber, an assistant professor of history at Loyola University, New Orleans and the author of Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America, leads us on an exploration of the early history of New Orleans.

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.2	Omaha Institute and this episode is sponsored by The Great Courses Plus.
0:06.3	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World.
0:09.7	Podcast about Early American History with Liz Covert.
0:14.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:19.0	Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted
0:24.4	and shaped our present day world.
0:26.9	And now here's your host, Liz Colart.
0:29.7	Happy New Year and welcome to episode 167 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:35.1	The podcast dedicated to helping you, learn more about how the people and events of our
0:39.3	early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:43.0	Can you believe it's already 2018?
0:47.0	At least for me, 2017 went by in a blur.
0:51.0	And I have to believe it's because so many great things happened for this
0:54.7	podcast in 2017 like we're now produced by the omehundred Institute which is
1:00.2	great because they have such a wonderful team of scholars and staff at the College of
1:03.8	William and Mary who now helped me produce this show and keep it going.
1:07.5	We also had The Doing History to the Revolution series, which in so many ways was epic, because it allowed us to explore both the
1:15.0	history and histories of the American Revolution so that we could better understand
1:18.9	what we know about it. And Ben Franklin's World One, The Academy of Podcaster's Best History Podcast Award of 2017.
1:28.0	Which is really quite an honor because that organization awards its podcast Oscars based on content and craft.
1:35.8	So it's just fantastic because they're saying of all the history podcasts out there, Ben Franklin's
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