Ben Franklin's World Creators & Guests

Historian Liz Covart hosts and produces podcast Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History, winner of the Best History Podcast Award in 2017. She's the Digital Projects Editor at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and a practitioner of scholarly history, public history, and digital humanities. She experiments with social and new media to communicate scholarly history to large, public audiences. Liz believes that if granted convenient access to the work of historians, the public will take an interest in history and become advocates for it. For more information visit: lizcovart.com

Rachel Hope Cleves is the author of the book: "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024).

Eric Foner is a historian, writer, and researcher.

Lonnie G. Bunch III is a historian who has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator. Currently, he is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.Previously, Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. His book about the endeavor, "A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump," was published in 2019.

Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is a presidential historian and the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, and Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic. She regularly writes for public audiences in the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Bulwark, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post.

Mike Duncan is a political history podcaster and author.