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Exhibition Catalog: Part 1: "In the Town"

Exhibition Catalog
Part 1: "In the Town"

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table of contents
  1. Title Page
    1. Introduction
    2. Acknowledgements
  2. Part 1: "In the Town"
    1. Constructing an Institution
    2. Centering Penn in the Eighteenth Century City
    3. Foundation and Fracture
    4. "a Scheme for transplanting Medical Science"
  3. Part 2: Civility & Scurrility
    1. Civility: William Smith and His Circle
    2. Scurrility: The Politics of “Quilsylvania”
      1. Provost in Prison! Franklin Accused!
  4. Part 3: Frontiers of Education
  5. Part 4: Doctors At War
  6. Part 5: "The Sphere of Political Tumult"
    1. Broadsides: Popular Voices?
  7. Part 6: Paine, Penn, and the Revolutions of Philadelphia
    1. Constituting a New Order
    2. Thomas Paine, Penn Graduate
    3. The Secretary and the Scribe
  8. Part 7: The Radical's University
    1. Dissension and Dissolution; Reformation
    2. "WE, Trustees of the University of the State of Pennsylvania . . ."
    3. The Political Scientists and A New Symbol
    4. Named and Unnamed in Print: Esther and Joseph Reed
    5. Where are they now? The revolutionary lives of Penn’s first graduates
  9. Part 8: Student Life in the Revolutionary Era
    1. Traitors and Trials: Of André and Arnold
  10. Part 9: Slavery and Freedom
  11. Part 10: Reunion and Regret

1. “In the Town”

An East Perspective View of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pensylvania, in North America, taken from the Jersey Shore. Engraving, hand-colored. [London]: Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles, 1778. Kislak Center, Rare Book Collection. Available Online.

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