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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

Revolution at Penn?

The University of Pennsylvania during

the American Revolution Era



An Exhibition by:

John Pollack and J.M. Duffin

From the collections of The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and the University Archives and Records Center.


February 13 - August 29, 2025

Goldstein Gallery

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

3420 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104


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