Book Discussion/Signing - The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, by Gordon Wood
Books / Literature - Lecture/Discussion
Monday, May 19, 2008
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
Barnard Room
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
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Book discussion about The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood will be lead by a Providence Public Library librarian. Professor Wood will attend the book discussion to answer questions and be available for book signing.
Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University, Providence, is a historian of Colonial America and one of this countrys foremost scholars on the American Revolution. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In addition to his book on Franklin, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, (2004) which received the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005, his book The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992) won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. It is considered among the definitive works on the social, political and economic consequences of the Revolution.
Wood has written numerous other works, including The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft and the John H. Dunning prizes in 1970 and was nominated for the national Book Award. He was involved in Ken Burn's PBS production on Thomas Jefferson, has contributed his expertise in the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and regularly devotes a portion of his time teaching history to high school students around the country. He is a trustee emeritus on the National Council of History Education and serves on the Advisory Board of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.
Professor Wood is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is currently working on a volume in the Oxford History of the United States dealing with the period of the early Republic from 1789 to 1815. His newest book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, was published in 2006.
Sponsors
Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World was organized by the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, Philadelphia, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition for libraries has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life. The traveling exhibition is based on a major exhibition of the same name mounted by the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth. The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary is a nonprofit organization established through a major grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to educate the public about Franklin's enduring legacy.
RI Sponsors
Programs and activities planned in conjunction with the Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World Exhibit's Rhode Island visit are presented by National Grid and also sponsored by the Rhode Island Freemasons and WJAR-10.
Providence Public Library is committed to providing quality programming on a variety of educational topics. The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the individual presenters and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the Library. We welcome community members to work with us to provide free, thought-provoking events of interest.
Cost: free
Suggested Audiences:
Adult
E-mail:
jchoiniere@provlib.org
Last Modified: February 21, 2008 at 8:03 AM
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Book Discussion/Signing - The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, by Gordon Wood
Books / Literature - Lecture/Discussion
Monday, May 19, 2008
6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Providence Public Library, Central
Barnard Room
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Google Maps - MapQuest
Book discussion about The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood will be lead by a Providence Public Library librarian. Professor Wood will attend the book discussion to answer questions and be available for book signing.
Wood has written numerous other works, including The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft and the John H. Dunning prizes in 1970 and was nominated for the national Book Award. He was involved in Ken Burn's PBS production on Thomas Jefferson, has contributed his expertise in the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and regularly devotes a portion of his time teaching history to high school students around the country. He is a trustee emeritus on the National Council of History Education and serves on the Advisory Board of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.
Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University, Providence, is a historian of Colonial America and one of this countrys foremost scholars on the American Revolution. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In addition to his book on Franklin, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, (2004) which received the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005, his book The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992) won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. It is considered among the definitive works on the social, political and economic consequences of the Revolution.
Professor Wood is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is currently working on a volume in the Oxford History of the United States dealing with the period of the early Republic from 1789 to 1815. His newest book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, was published in 2006.
Sponsors
Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World was organized by the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, Philadelphia, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition for libraries has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life. The traveling exhibition is based on a major exhibition of the same name mounted by the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth. The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary is a nonprofit organization established through a major grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to educate the public about Franklin's enduring legacy.
RI Sponsors
Programs and activities planned in conjunction with the Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World Exhibit's Rhode Island visit are presented by National Grid and also sponsored by the Rhode Island Freemasons and WJAR-10.
Providence Public Library is committed to providing quality programming on a variety of educational topics. The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the individual presenters and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the Library. We welcome community members to work with us to provide free, thought-provoking events of interest.
Cost: free
Suggested Audiences: Adult
E-mail: jchoiniere@provlib.org
Last Modified: February 21, 2008 at 8:03 AM
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