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

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.

Mike Duncan is a political history podcaster and author.

Eric Foner is a historian, writer, and researcher.