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Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of Ben Franklin's World.

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.

And I'm your host, Liz Covart.

Now, in our last episode, episode 307, Michael had him help to investigate the role that history played in the American Revolution

and the ways that early historians used history as a tool to help unite Americans as one people after the revolution.

Plus, he also helped us better understand how the first histories of the United States have really impacted our memory of the revolution and of early America.

Well, in today's bonus episode, we're going to get back together with Michael had him so that we can explore a few topics that we just didn't have time to talk about in our full-length episode.

A listener questioned about how British Americans thought about the British Empire's responsibility to protect them,

and historical schools of thought, how those schools of thought developed, and the different schools of historical thought when it comes to the American Revolution.

Essentially, Michael is going to take us on a whirlwind tour of the history of history writing when it comes to the American Revolution,

or what historians like to call the historiography of the American Revolution.

But first, this bonus episode is a sample of the kinds of bonus episodes that you could be receiving each month as a subscriber to the Ben Franklin's World subscription program.

Each month, subscribers to the Ben Franklin's World subscription program received ahead-free versions of each new episode and monthly bonus episodes on the last Friday of each month.

These perks are a big thank you from me in the Omanhundro Institute, because each subscriber to the Ben Franklin's World subscription program really helps support the production of this podcast.

Now, while many podcasts like Ben Franklin's World are free for you to listen to, they are not free to produce.

The OI's digital audio team and I invest one hour of labor into each minute that you hear in an episode.

And when we do those special narrative episodes, like the one you just heard in episode 306, we spend about two hours of labor into each minute that you hear on this podcast.

So yeah, it really just takes a lot of time and money to produce this podcast, which is why the Omanhundro Institute and I could really use your help to keep it going.

You love great historical scholarship and we love helping scholars introduce you to their great historical scholarship.

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