Episode 6: Liz Covart

Season Six, Episode 6, Civics in the Classroom: Liz Covart
June 12, 2026

This is Civics in the Classroom, a podcast series from the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Civics in the Classroom is part of the A250 Summer Teacher Seminar, America's First Principles. This program to promote innovative K-12 instruction in U.S. history and civics was designed by the Center for Presidential History with support from the U.S. Department of Education and in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. In the first year of this three-year project, our workshops and lectures will focus on the causes and context of the movement for U.S. independence and the production and legacy of its most famous document, the Declaration of Independence.  

This episode is the last in our series, and features a conversation with Dr. Liz Covart. Liz is a historian of the American Revolution, and while she wears many hats, she's probably best known as the creator of the award-winning podcast, Ben Franklin's World: a podcast about early American history. She is also the founding director of Colonial Williamsburg Innovation Studios, as well as co-founder of Clio Digital Media, a 501 C3 nonprofit that uses digital media to foster better, more robust understandings of history. And this year, she'll be launching Scholar DIY, a public benefit company that empowers scholars to transform their expertise into compelling digital stories. 

The music for this series comes from the album K2 by Blue Dot Sessions under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.