Ben Franklin was one of the most frequently painted people of his time. He got so many requests to sit for artists that he once wrote of those sessions, “I am perfectly sick of it. I know nothing so ...
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Ben Franklin’s evolution on slavery
The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...
Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...
Franklin's Bookshop in Philadelphia, 1745. Painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, ca. 1910. Monday, Aug. 19 and Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream the 2-part series now with KPBS ...
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