Sections: Introduction - A Cause For Revolution - Break With Britain - Continental Congress
Treaty of Paris - The New Republic - Scientist and Inventor - Printer and Writer - Epitaph
Public Programs
Lecture Series
Thursday,
March 9, 2006 at Noon
"Benjamin Franklin"
J. A. Leo Lemay, University of Delaware
Noon, March 9, 2006
Location: Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ119 (view floor plan)
Thursday, April 20, 2006 at Noon
"Benjamin Franklin and Others in Search of a Better World"
Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Haverford College
Location: James Madison Building, Mary Pickford Theater (view floor plan)>> more about Emma Lapsansky-Werner:
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/webejl/vita896.html
http://www.haverford.edu/publications/winter03/laps.htm
Thursday, May 4, 2006 at Noon
"Did Benjamin Franklin Have a Dark Side?"
Robert L. Middlekauff, Berkeley
Location: Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ119 (view floor plan)>> more about Robert Middlekauff:
http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Middlekauff
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/dta96/#middlekauff
Gallery Talks
All programs will take place in the American Treasures Gallery at 12:00 P.M. (view map)
January 18, 2006
Gerard Gawalt of the Manuscript Division will lead Part I of a tour through
the exhibition Benjamin
Franklin: In His Own Words
February 22, 2006
Rosemary Fry Plakas of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division will
discuss Benjamin Franklin as a writer and printer
March 1, 2006
Gerard Gawalt of the Manuscript Division will discuss Benjamin Franklin
as a statesman and diplomat
March 29, 2006
Len Bruno of the Manuscript Division will discuss Benjamin Franklin as
scientist and inventor
May 3, 2006
Gerry Gawalt of the Manuscript Division will lead Part II of tour through
the exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words