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 ...
Benjamin Franklin arrived in France, hoping to win French support for the Revolution. In 1776, people in France had never heard of any American, except for Benjamin Franklin. Congress sent Franklin to ...
As Carla Mulford wrote in her article “Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory” from “The New England Quarterly”: “Franklin’s figure offers a representative case of the multiple ways ...
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