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Morton, Agassiz, and the Origins of Scientific Racism in the United States
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Menand, Louis
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
01-31-2002
IN THE MONTHS between his arrival in Boston in October 1846 and his
delivery of the Lowell Lectures that winter, Louis Agassiz had made a quick
tour of the Northeast for the purpose of introducing himself to the
American scientific establishment. He ended up spending most of his time in
Philadelphia, where he was in the frequent company of a man named Samuel
George Morton. Morton was the most famous American anthropologist of his
day. He had two medical degrees, one from the University of Pennsylvania,
the other from the University ...
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Franklin's legacy: documented furnishings.(Benjamin Franklin)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...disappointing; Richard Bache wrote from London to his oldest son Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769-1798...House of the late Dr. Franklin ... several of the...1794, however, when Benjamin Bache wrote his father that...
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"Art is long, and ... Time is short": Benjamin Franklin's views on the visual arts.(Biography)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...advantage. [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] Franklin valued the basic skill of drawing...and most ornamental." (4) Franklin also suggested that visual...seven-year-old grandson Benjamin Franklin (Benny) Bache accompanied Franklin to Paris...
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MUZZLING THE GHOST OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.(Everyday Magazine)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
; ...muzzle the Aurora, a newspaper published by Benjamin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Adams believed that Franklin had always hated...the campaign of hatred from the grave through Bache. "Suddenly," Rosenfeld says, "I found...
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Sleuthing librarians reconstruct Franklin's collection
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...The organization, started by Franklin and other bibliophiles in 1731...discovered the shelfmark in volumes Franklin bequeathed directly to the library...in 1962 from a descendant of Benjamin Franklin Bache _ another grandson of Franklin...
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Benjamin Franklin: an American Life.(book)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Political Science Quarterly
; ...Isaacson's account of Franklin's public life is set...example, a discussion of Franklin's extended family...Sally's relations with Benjamin Bache, whom she would eventually...family, followed by Franklin's reactions to the...
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On How to Fit Benjamin Franklin into Eight Thousand Square Feet1
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
; ...relatively little background on Benjamin Franklin or the American colonial period...Cohn, editor of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, and J. Leo LeMay, author...diplomacy. The small but talented Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary staff also brought...
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Ben Franklin's Philadelphia.
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post
; ...s later years remembered at Franklin in Court, the site of the...outlines where the house and Franklin's grandson Benjamin Bache's print shop stood, because...the life of the multifaceted Franklin with a film, miniature tableaux...
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Ink-Stained Rabble Rousers
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...newspaper printers Pasley describes -- including Benjamin Franklin Bache, the namesake grandson and prote{acute}ge{acute} of Benjamin Franklin. Bache was Duane's predecessor as editor of the Philadelphia...
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Founders chic: our reverence for the Fathers has gotten out of hand.
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; ...King, employs his old enemies like a King." Benjamin Franklin Bache, Freneau's comrade-in-opposition (and the grandson of Benjamin Franklin), compared Washington to Oliver Cromwell and...
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The Last Words
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Benjamin Franklin Bache, a namesake and grandson of the...Washington left the presidency, Mr. Bache declared the occasion cause for a...all whining at the exit of the vile Benjamin Franklin Bache: so they would do if one of their...
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