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Franklin, Jefferson, & America’s First Institutions
Franklin, Jefferson, & America’s First Institutions
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73 minutes
Released:
Aug 5, 2019
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Podcast episode
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The final episode of season one of Great Talks at the APS departs slightly from the format of featuring an APS Meeting talk, instead featuring a paper appearing in a recent issue of Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. We thought it appropriate to close out the season by having a conversation about two figures who loom large in the history of the APS and in the national imagination—Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
On this episode, Dr. Patrick Spero and Dr. John Van Horne discuss Franklin, Jefferson, and their contributions to the founding and early growth of the American Philosophical Society and other Philadelphia institutions. Dr. Van Horne is Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia. His essay, "Two Chips off the Same Block: Benjamin Franklin's Library Company and Philosophical Society and the Saga of Their 275-Year Relationship," was published in the December 2018 issue of the Proceedings.
John Van Horne, [“Two Chips off the Same Block: Benjamin Franklin’s Library Company and Philosophical Society and the Saga of Their 275-Year Relationship,”](https://www.amphilsoc.org/publications/proceedings-volume-162-number-4) *Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society*, Vol. 162, No. 4 (December 2018).
Patrick K. Spero, [“The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society,”](https://www.amphilsoc.org/publications/proceedings-volume-162-number-4) *Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society*, Vol. 162, No. 4 (December 2018).
Thomas Jefferson’s [“3. Volumes bound in Marbled paper”](http://jefferson3volumes.princeton.edu/) online.
On this episode, Dr. Patrick Spero and Dr. John Van Horne discuss Franklin, Jefferson, and their contributions to the founding and early growth of the American Philosophical Society and other Philadelphia institutions. Dr. Van Horne is Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia. His essay, "Two Chips off the Same Block: Benjamin Franklin's Library Company and Philosophical Society and the Saga of Their 275-Year Relationship," was published in the December 2018 issue of the Proceedings.
John Van Horne, [“Two Chips off the Same Block: Benjamin Franklin’s Library Company and Philosophical Society and the Saga of Their 275-Year Relationship,”](https://www.amphilsoc.org/publications/proceedings-volume-162-number-4) *Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society*, Vol. 162, No. 4 (December 2018).
Patrick K. Spero, [“The Other Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society,”](https://www.amphilsoc.org/publications/proceedings-volume-162-number-4) *Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society*, Vol. 162, No. 4 (December 2018).
Thomas Jefferson’s [“3. Volumes bound in Marbled paper”](http://jefferson3volumes.princeton.edu/) online.
Released:
Aug 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (9)
The Demise of “Fact” in Political Discourse: On the first episode of the APS podcast, host Dr. Patrick Spero interviews Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson about the attack on facts in political dialogue and what that means for governance. Dr. Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, the Walter and Leonore Director of the university’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, author of numerous books on political communication, and an APS Member. She gave a talk at the April 2013 APS meeting entitled, “Implications of the Attack on ‘Fact’ in Contemporary Politics,” the full recording is below. Dr. Spero and Dr. Jamieson delve into the themes of her 2013 presentation as well its relevance for today. by Great Talks at American Philosophical Society