305 Speaking with the Dead in Early America

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Death is one of the few universals in life. Everyone who is born, will die. How do the living make peace with death? While different cultures make peace with death in different ways, Erik Seeman joins us to investigate how white, American Protestants made their peace with death during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Erik Seeman is a Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. He’s an award-winning historian who has written three books on death practices in early America, including his most recent book, Speaking with the Dead in Early America. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/305 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 125: Terri Snyder, Death, Slavery, & Suicide in British North America 🎧 Episode 182: Douglas Winiarski, The Great Awakening in New England 🎧 Episode 214: Christopher Grasso, Skepticism & American Faith 🎧 Episode 231: Sara Georgini, The Religious Lives of the Adams Family 🎧 Episode 301: From Inoculation to Vaccination, Part 1 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 the
0:18.1	podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the
0:25.0	present day world we live in.
0:27.0	And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.
0:30.4	The last year and a half has been difficult for many of us.
0:33.0	Not only has the pandemic required us to quarantine and social distance,
0:37.0	it has also required us to adjust the way we handle and think about death.
0:42.0	Death is one of the few universals in life.
0:45.0	Everyone who is born will die.
0:47.0	So how do the living make peace with death?
0:50.0	Eric Seaman is a professor of history at the University at Buffalo.
0:54.3	He's an award-winning historian who has written three books on death practices in
0:58.6	early America, including his most recent book,
1:01.4	Speaking with the Dead in Early America.
1:05.1	Now while different cultures make peace with death
1:07.4	in different ways, Eric joins us to investigate
1:10.3	how white American Protestants made their peace with death during the 17th, 18th, and 19th,
1:15.8	centuries.
1:16.8	Now, during our investigation, Eric reveals early American ideas about death.
1:23.0	Information about the English Reformation,
1:26.0	and how Anglo-American Protestants
1:28.0	came to believe that relationships with the dead were possible.
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