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Ben Franklin's world revisit it

a series of classic episodes that bring fresh perspective to our newest episodes and

add deeper connections to our understanding of early American history.

I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

In episode 396, we explored the history of Carpenters Hall and the meeting of the First Continental Congress.

As I listened to this episode, I couldn't help but think of an earlier episode that we did about how Americans governed and organized

themselves as the American Revolution turned to war. So I thought we might try a new

series. Ben Franklin's world revisited. A series where I surfaced one of our earlier episodes that really This So given the conversation we just had in episode 396, I'd like to offer you an

episode that I produced back in 2017 as part of our Doing History to the

Revolution series. Episode 153, committees and Congress's governments of the American Revolution,

furthers the discussion we just had about the First Continental Congress

by helping us investigate how the American Revolutionaries form governments

as Imperial rule in British North America disintegrated as the American Revolution turned to war.

Now this episode features three guest scholars. Mark Boonshaft, Benjamin Ervin, and Jane

Calvert. And they'll take us through the Revolutionary's formation of first committees

of correspondence, then local committees of safety, provincial congresses, and the first and second

continental congresses. This is really a fun episode to produce. It's really one of my

early attempts at creating a narrative style type of episode.

It's also an example of how much the technology of podcasting has changed over the years,

because I produced this episode before there were such a thing as virtual recording studio

apps,

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