The age of Benjamin Franklin
Format:
Video disc
Title:
The age of Benjamin Franklin
ISBN:
9781629975184
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Series title(s):
General Note:
Title from container.
"Course no. 8517"--Container
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Accompanying guidebook entitled: "Age of Benjamin Franklin, course guidebook" by "Professor Robert J. Allison, Suffolk University, ©2018."
Contents:
disc 1. Benjamin Franklin and the American dream -- Meet the Franklins -- Benjamin Franklin's Boston beginings -- Benjamin Franklin and Philadelphia -- Benjamin Franklin in London -- Benjamin Franklin: printer and postmaster -- disc 2. Benjamin Franklin: scientist -- Benjamin Franklin and electricity -- Benjamin Franklin's religious beliefs -- Benjamin Franklin: American satirist -- The musical Benjamin Franklin -- Benjamin Franklin: ladies' man? -- disc 3. Benjamin Franklin: a reluctant politician -- Benjamin Franklin and the American Indians -- Benjamin Franklin and slavery in America -- Benjamin Franklin and Colonies vs. Empire -- Benjamin Franklin and the Crisis of 1773 -- Benjamin Franklin and Colonial independence -- disc 4. Benjamin Franklin and the Age of Revolution -- Benjamin Franklin: acclaimed in France -- Benjamin Franklin: making peace -- Benjamin Franklin: framing the Constitution -- Benjamin Franklin's critics and enemiess -- Benjamin Franklin's remarkable legacy.
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