Liz Covart
@lizcovart.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
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In the 1820s, Americans thought a canal across Nicaragua was inevitable.
They were wrong.
Canal dreamers, revolutions, and rainforest disasters—this story has it all.
🎧 @lizcovart.bsky.social dives in with historian Jessica Lepler
🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428
#history #EarlyAmerica #BFWpod
They were wrong.
Canal dreamers, revolutions, and rainforest disasters—this story has it all.
🎧 @lizcovart.bsky.social dives in with historian Jessica Lepler
🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428
#history #EarlyAmerica #BFWpod
Episode 428: Jessica Lepler, America’s Forgotten Quest to Link Two Oceans
In the 1820s, Americans dared to dream big. They believed they could cut a canal through the wild, rain-soaked terrain of Nicaragua. This is their story.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In the 1820s, Americans thought a canal across Nicaragua was inevitable.
They were wrong.
Canal dreamers, revolutions, and rainforest disasters—this story has it all.
🎧 @lizcovart.bsky.social dives in with historian Jessica Lepler
🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428
#history #EarlyAmerica #BFWpod
They were wrong.
Canal dreamers, revolutions, and rainforest disasters—this story has it all.
🎧 @lizcovart.bsky.social dives in with historian Jessica Lepler
🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428
#history #EarlyAmerica #BFWpod
I’m putting the finishing touches on @bfworld.bsky.social’s 430th episode, and just taking a moment to let 430 set in as a number.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I’m putting the finishing touches on @bfworld.bsky.social’s 430th episode, and just taking a moment to let 430 set in as a number.
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Had a great conversation this morning with @morganmccullough.bsky.social and @lizcovart.bsky.social about a new newsletter feature that will debut in January from Ben Franklin's World and Clio Digital Media. Join our email list to make sure you see it! cliodigital.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Had a great conversation this morning with @morganmccullough.bsky.social and @lizcovart.bsky.social about a new newsletter feature that will debut in January from Ben Franklin's World and Clio Digital Media. Join our email list to make sure you see it! cliodigital.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
@annabrownlee.bsky.social Thank you for helping us over the hump with our end-of-year fundraising goal, Anna. We appreciate you.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
@annabrownlee.bsky.social Thank you for helping us over the hump with our end-of-year fundraising goal, Anna. We appreciate you.
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The @bfworld.bsky.social #GivingTuesday campaign is sooooo close to an even $3,000 raised. Anyone interested in giving $12.97 so we can hit that benchmark? @lizcovart.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social #VastEarlyAmerica #podcasts benfranklinsworld.com/givingtuesday
Giving Tuesday 2025
This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give—up to $3,700—will be matched twice, tripling your impact.
Your generosity fuels Clio Digital Media’s mission to make trustworthy, engaging early American his...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The @bfworld.bsky.social #GivingTuesday campaign is sooooo close to an even $3,000 raised. Anyone interested in giving $12.97 so we can hit that benchmark? @lizcovart.bsky.social @kawulf.bsky.social #VastEarlyAmerica #podcasts benfranklinsworld.com/givingtuesday
I’m working on an episode about Benjamin Rush. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Americans who needed medical attention were charged based on their ability to pay.
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m working on an episode about Benjamin Rush. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Americans who needed medical attention were charged based on their ability to pay.
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Long-time listener, first time talker. Loved my Ben Franklin’s World experience. I hope you will enjoy it, too! Thanks @lizcovart.bsky.social!
Mapping. Data. Climate. Geopolitics.
The 1820s canal dream has a lot to say to our present.
In the latest episode of Ben Franklin’s World, Liz Covart and Jessica Lepler explore a major, failed idea and what we can learn from it today.
🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428
The 1820s canal dream has a lot to say to our present.
In the latest episode of Ben Franklin’s World, Liz Covart and Jessica Lepler explore a major, failed idea and what we can learn from it today.
🎧 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Long-time listener, first time talker. Loved my Ben Franklin’s World experience. I hope you will enjoy it, too! Thanks @lizcovart.bsky.social!
I just discovered #TerrierTuesday. For my first post, I offer the many faces/brows of the Schnauzer.
The King of the schnauzer brow is still my Sprocket, who I miss and think about everyday. He was my soul dog.
The King of the schnauzer brow is still my Sprocket, who I miss and think about everyday. He was my soul dog.
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I just discovered #TerrierTuesday. For my first post, I offer the many faces/brows of the Schnauzer.
The King of the schnauzer brow is still my Sprocket, who I miss and think about everyday. He was my soul dog.
The King of the schnauzer brow is still my Sprocket, who I miss and think about everyday. He was my soul dog.
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Yep. The state and federal constitutions of the 1770s and 1780s share the feature of trying to limit executive power (how much and in what ways varied, of course).
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Yep. The state and federal constitutions of the 1770s and 1780s share the feature of trying to limit executive power (how much and in what ways varied, of course).
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Podcast Alert! I had so much fun chatting with @lizcovart.bsky.social about the history of 1820s interoceanic Canal Dreamers. The @bfworld.bsky.social podcast episode went live today! What a great last day of classes treat. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-428-...
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Episode 428: Jessica Lepler, America’s Forgotten Quest to Link Two Oceans
In the 1820s, Americans dared to dream big. They believed they could cut a canal through the wild, rain-soaked terrain of Nicaragua. This is their story.
benfranklinsworld.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Podcast Alert! I had so much fun chatting with @lizcovart.bsky.social about the history of 1820s interoceanic Canal Dreamers. The @bfworld.bsky.social podcast episode went live today! What a great last day of classes treat. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-428-...
benfranklinsworld.com/episode-428-...
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While newlyweds in the early 1840s, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne kept a common journal documenting their daily life. Learn more in this week's blog post by Jon Repetti. https://www.amphilsoc.org/news/backlist-spotlight-ordinary-mysteries-common-journal-nathaniel-and-sophia-hawthorne-1842-1843
Backlist Spotlight: Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843 | American Philosophical Society
In the first year of their marriage, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne rented the Old Manse, a historic clergy house outside of Concord, Massachusetts that had previously been the home of Ralph Waldo Eme...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
While newlyweds in the early 1840s, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne kept a common journal documenting their daily life. Learn more in this week's blog post by Jon Repetti. https://www.amphilsoc.org/news/backlist-spotlight-ordinary-mysteries-common-journal-nathaniel-and-sophia-hawthorne-1842-1843
Justices like Gorsuch really think they “know” early American and U.S. history, but they only read a few conservative historians and they have ideas about the civility of early American politics and the Constitution that are flat out wrong.
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Justices like Gorsuch really think they “know” early American and U.S. history, but they only read a few conservative historians and they have ideas about the civility of early American politics and the Constitution that are flat out wrong.
If I agreed to be your personal history coach for a month, what would you want me to help you with?
December 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If I agreed to be your personal history coach for a month, what would you want me to help you with?
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This action largely considered the worst racist atrocity of the Civil War was led by CSA Gen Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK.
But the South was so successful at justifying the Civil War thru the Lost Cause, that you probably know the name from a character named after him-Forest Gump. 🗃️
But the South was so successful at justifying the Civil War thru the Lost Cause, that you probably know the name from a character named after him-Forest Gump. 🗃️
A good day for a little history brush up
"Surviving members of the garrison said that most of their men surrendered and threw down their arms, only to be shot or bayoneted by the attackers, who repeatedly shouted, "No quarter! No quarter!"
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"Surviving members of the garrison said that most of their men surrendered and threw down their arms, only to be shot or bayoneted by the attackers, who repeatedly shouted, "No quarter! No quarter!"
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Battle of Fort Pillow - Wikipedia
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December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This action largely considered the worst racist atrocity of the Civil War was led by CSA Gen Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK.
But the South was so successful at justifying the Civil War thru the Lost Cause, that you probably know the name from a character named after him-Forest Gump. 🗃️
But the South was so successful at justifying the Civil War thru the Lost Cause, that you probably know the name from a character named after him-Forest Gump. 🗃️
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This evening! 😃🤓
Some of the most meaningful materials I worked with for _Lineage_, conveying the infrastructural role of genealogy & the power of family, is at the American Antiquarian Society.
Excited to be there tomorrow night (& online) to talk abt the book! Info ⬇️
www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
Excited to be there tomorrow night (& online) to talk abt the book! Info ⬇️
www.americanantiquarian.org/programs-eve...
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This evening! 😃🤓
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Here is your latest quarterly bibliography of interesting material in NativeAmerican/Indigenous history for Dec 2025. I hope you find this useful, and that some of these make their way under your Christmas tree.
I wish you a peaceful end to this difficult year
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I wish you a peaceful end to this difficult year
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What You Need to Read, December 2025
Christmas is approaching. Perhaps some of these new works will find a space underneath your tree. I hope you find this useful, and I hope your semester is coming to a peaceful and easy end. Adler, …
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here is your latest quarterly bibliography of interesting material in NativeAmerican/Indigenous history for Dec 2025. I hope you find this useful, and that some of these make their way under your Christmas tree.
I wish you a peaceful end to this difficult year
michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...
I wish you a peaceful end to this difficult year
michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...
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I'm launching a new weekly newsletter: Found History (Briefly Noted).
My long-form essays remain on the main site (foundhistory.org), but the "stream of discovery"—links, social highlights, and reading lists—is moving to Substack.
Get the weekly roundup here: foundhistory.substack.com
My long-form essays remain on the main site (foundhistory.org), but the "stream of discovery"—links, social highlights, and reading lists—is moving to Substack.
Get the weekly roundup here: foundhistory.substack.com
Found History (Briefly Noted) | Tom Scheinfeldt | Substack
Found History (Briefly Noted) is a companion to the Found History newsletter (foundhistory.org) by Tom Scheinfeldt, Professor of Digital Humanities at UConn. Subscribe for links to what I’ve written, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I'm launching a new weekly newsletter: Found History (Briefly Noted).
My long-form essays remain on the main site (foundhistory.org), but the "stream of discovery"—links, social highlights, and reading lists—is moving to Substack.
Get the weekly roundup here: foundhistory.substack.com
My long-form essays remain on the main site (foundhistory.org), but the "stream of discovery"—links, social highlights, and reading lists—is moving to Substack.
Get the weekly roundup here: foundhistory.substack.com
Working on an episode about Coffee in the 18th century. The ways Americans found ways to skirt their own non-importation actions during the American Revolution are ingenious, and also make me again question the seriousness of the acts.
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Working on an episode about Coffee in the 18th century. The ways Americans found ways to skirt their own non-importation actions during the American Revolution are ingenious, and also make me again question the seriousness of the acts.
Who knew coffee could be so fascinating? I’m working on an episode of the podcast where @jmadelman.bsky.social interviews Michelle McDonald about her new book Coffee Nation.
The history behind the 18th-century coffee trade is really interesting.
The history behind the 18th-century coffee trade is really interesting.
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
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December 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Who knew coffee could be so fascinating? I’m working on an episode of the podcast where @jmadelman.bsky.social interviews Michelle McDonald about her new book Coffee Nation.
The history behind the 18th-century coffee trade is really interesting.
The history behind the 18th-century coffee trade is really interesting.
These Pod Dogs are so ready for our conversation with Fort Ticonderoga. We’ll be talking about the fort’s early history and Henry Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery for a 2026 episode of @bfworld.bsky.social.
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
These Pod Dogs are so ready for our conversation with Fort Ticonderoga. We’ll be talking about the fort’s early history and Henry Knox’s Noble Train of Artillery for a 2026 episode of @bfworld.bsky.social.
It was fun to work on this episode hosted by @kawulf.bsky.social. It was a fascinating conversation that gives insight into how individual states are thinking about America 250 commemorations and celebrations next year and beyond.
I got behind the mic to host @bfworld.bsky.social (thanks, @lizcovart.bsky.social!) for a conversation between leaders of the 250th in my two favorite states -- Virginia & Rhode Island. Carly Fiorina (honorary chair of VA250) and Gregg Amore (RI Sec State). benfranklinsworld.com/episode-427-...
Episode 427: How States Are Planning the 250th: Commemorating the American Revolution in 2026
Discover how states are preparing for the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It was fun to work on this episode hosted by @kawulf.bsky.social. It was a fascinating conversation that gives insight into how individual states are thinking about America 250 commemorations and celebrations next year and beyond.
Thank you for helping us reach 66 percent of our fundraising goal yesterday! You are remarkable!
There is still time for us to reach 100% of our goal with a fully tax-deductible donation.
www.benfranklinsworld.com/donate
There is still time for us to reach 100% of our goal with a fully tax-deductible donation.
www.benfranklinsworld.com/donate
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thank you for helping us reach 66 percent of our fundraising goal yesterday! You are remarkable!
There is still time for us to reach 100% of our goal with a fully tax-deductible donation.
www.benfranklinsworld.com/donate
There is still time for us to reach 100% of our goal with a fully tax-deductible donation.
www.benfranklinsworld.com/donate
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I got behind the mic to host @bfworld.bsky.social (thanks, @lizcovart.bsky.social!) for a conversation between leaders of the 250th in my two favorite states -- Virginia & Rhode Island. Carly Fiorina (honorary chair of VA250) and Gregg Amore (RI Sec State). benfranklinsworld.com/episode-427-...
Episode 427: How States Are Planning the 250th: Commemorating the American Revolution in 2026
Discover how states are preparing for the 250th anniversary of American independence in 2026.
benfranklinsworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I got behind the mic to host @bfworld.bsky.social (thanks, @lizcovart.bsky.social!) for a conversation between leaders of the 250th in my two favorite states -- Virginia & Rhode Island. Carly Fiorina (honorary chair of VA250) and Gregg Amore (RI Sec State). benfranklinsworld.com/episode-427-...
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Here’s the story of how we got here and why your support matters…
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Here’s the story of how we got here and why your support matters…
Giving Tuesday 2025
This Giving Tuesday, every dollar you give—up to $3,700—will be matched twice, tripling your impact.
Your generosity fuels Clio Digital Media’s mission to make trustworthy, engaging early American his...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We’ve raised 50% of our match goal. Please help us get to 100%!
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