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How did average, poor, and enslaved men and women live their day-to-day lives in the early United States?

Today, we explore the answers to that question with Simon P. Newman, a Professor of History at the University of Glasgow and our guide for an investigation into how historians choose their research topics.\\xa0

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Doing History Series

This episode is part of the "Doing History: How Historians Work" series.\\xa0

\\u201cDoing History\\u201d episodes will introduce you to historians who will tell you what they know about the past and reveal how they came to their knowledge.

Each episode will air on the last Tuesday of each month in 2016.

This series is part of a partnership between Ben Franklin\\u2019s World and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

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