Lauren jackson autobiography of benjamin
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Sophie-Margarete Schuster, Geschichtswissenschaften, Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
ARTICLES
Walking While Indian, Walking While Black: Policing in a Colonial City
Sylvia Sellers-García
The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)
Nicolas Barreyre; Claire Lemercier
Europe’s Forgotten Unfinished Revolution: Peasant Power, Social Mobilization, and Communism in the Southern Italian Countryside, 1943–45
Rosario Forlenza
“Toilet Paper Panic”: Uncertainty and Insecurity in Early 1970s Japan
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
The Empire Strikes Back from Within: Colonial Liberation and the Korean Minority Question at the Birth of Postwar Japan, 1945–47
Deokhyo Choi
“A Genius without Direction”: The Abortive Exile of Dugmore Boetie and the Fate of Southern African Refugees in a Decolonizing Africa
Benjamin N. Lawrance; Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
Grassroots Glasnost: Experimental Art, Participation, and Civic Life in 1980s East Berlin
Briana J. Smith
AHR REAPPRAISAL
“The Vanished Power of the Usual Reign”: Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace, and the Struggle for Hegemony in History
Andrew Seal
HISTORY UNCLASSIFIED
Community-Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
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Biography of Benjamin Franklin
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In addition to being a founding father, Benjamin Franklin was a polymath, scientist, printer, politician, freemason, and diplomat. He worked as an editor, bookseller, statesman, researcher, innovator, writer, political theorist, and printer. Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States, a renowned thinker, a co-author and authenticator of the American Declaration of Independence, and the nation's first postmaster general.
Franklin was christened at the Old South Meeting House on January 17, 1706, the day following his birth on Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow trader, soap manufacturer, and candle manufacturer. On December 23, 1657, Josiah Franklin was born in Ecton, Northamptonshire, England. He was the son of a peasant and a blacksmith, Thomas Franklin and Jane White, respectively. Benjamin's grandparents and his father were born in England.
With his two marriages, Josiah Franklin had a total of seventeen kids. After getting married to Anne Child in Ecton in 1677, the couple moved to Boston in 1683. They had three kids before leaving Ecton and four afterward. He married Abiah Folger on July 9, 1689, in the Old South Meeting House after his first wife
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The Curious Plead with of Benzoin Button timorous Francis Thespian Fitzgerald. 1922
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