299 Colonial Virginia Portraits

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What can a portrait reveal about the history of colonial British America? Portraits were both deeply personal and yet collaborative artifacts left behind by people of the past. When historians look at multiple portraits created around the same time and place, their similarities can reveal important social connections, trade relationships, or cultural beliefs about race and gender in early American history. Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Associate Curator of American Art at the Chazen Museum of Art and the researcher behind the digital project Colonial Virginia Portraits, leads us on an exploration of portraiture and what it can reveal about the early American past. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/299 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 024: Kimberly Alexander, 18th-Century Fashion & Material Culture 🎧 Episode 084: Zara Anishanslin, How Historians Read Historical Sources 🎧 Episode 106: Jane Kamensky, The World of John Singleton Copley 🎧 Episode 136: Jennifer Van Horn, Material Culture and the Making of America 🎧 Episode 292: Glenn Adamson, Craft in Early America REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:02.8	Omaha Institute. Hello and welcome to episode 299 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:18.0	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 we live in.
0:27.0	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:30.0	Today we're in for a special treat.
0:33.0	Holly White, who normally works behind the microphone at Ben Franklin's world, has decided
0:37.4	to step in front of the microphone and host an episode for us.
0:41.9	Now if you haven't met Holly, Holly White is the assistant
0:44.6	editor of digital projects and oh I publications at the O'Mahandro Institute. She's
0:49.3	also an associate producer of Ben Franklin's world. Now as a historian of the Early American Republic,
0:54.8	Holly specializes in the history of gender, family, and childhood and youth.
0:59.6	When not working on various OI publications, Holly is working on her own publication, a book
1:06.0	which she'll publish with the University of Virginia Press and which is titled,
1:10.1	Protecting the Innocence, Legal and cultural debates about age and ability in the early United States.
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