248 BFW Road Trip: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Not all historians publish their findings about history in books and articles. Some historians convey knowledge about history to the public in public spaces and in public ways.
We conclude the “Doing History: How Historians Work” series with a look at how historians do history for the public with guest historian Lonnie Bunch, the Founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
This episode originally posted as a Bonus Episode in 2016.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/248
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Franklin's world is a production of the |
| 0:02.5 | O'Mahandro Institute. Hello and welcome to episode 248 of Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:17.0 | The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world |
| 0:24.0 | we live in. |
| 0:25.2 | And I'm your host, Liz Kovart. Two stops down and two to go. We're back in the car and headed for the third stop in our four episode road trip through Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:41.0 | We have a long drive ahead of us today because our next destination is |
| 0:44.4 | 401 miles south of Scowhery Crossing State Historic site. We're off to the |
| 0:49.3 | National Museum of African American History and Culture. Our drive begins on I-87 south. |
| 0:55.0 | This will take us down the Hudson River Valley, into New Jersey, |
| 0:58.0 | and onto the Garden State Parkway. |
| 1:00.0 | And as we drive through Southern New Jersey, |
| 1:02.0 | you may wish to play episode |
| 1:03.7 | episode. In that episode, we learn all about the legend of the Jersey devil, |
| 1:08.3 | which supposedly lives in Southern New Jersey. Plus, episode 192 is just a lot of fun. That was the first |
| 1:15.9 | episode where we debuted our non-phone call recording method so I think you'll just |
| 1:20.3 | really enjoy the story and the great audio. Now feel free to take a detour as we drive. |
| 1:25.9 | You may wish to stop off in Philadelphia or in Wilmington, Delaware at the Delaware Historical |
| 1:30.3 | Society. But for now, I plan to drive straight through to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:36.0 | Do you remember when we first visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture? |
| 1:40.8 | We came in 2016 to speak with its founding director Lonnie Bunch. |
| 1:45.0 | Back then, we were on a quest as part of our very first doing history series to learn more about how historians work. |
| 1:51.0 | And Lonnie, he helped us conclude our quest by taking us through his museum work. |
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