Additional materials:

View Charles Willson Peale's portrait of Benjamin Franklin, 1772, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Here's another Franklin portrait by Peale, 1789, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
View Joseph Duplessis's portrait of Benjamin Franklin, c. 1785, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Take a look at Benjamin West's fanciful painting (c. 1805) of Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.

Benjamin Franklin founded or helped to found many Philadelphia institutions, some of which thrive to this very day.  Follow the links to visit the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the Pennsylvania Hospital, and the University of Pennsylvania.

View John Wollaston's portrait of George Whitefield, c. 1742, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Here's an electronic-text collection of some of Whitefield's sermons.

Here's a map of Philadelphia and its environs from 1752, with a drawing of Independence Hall.

View the portrait of Phillis Wheatley that appeared as the frontispiece illustration to her book of poems.
 
 

Regular course readings and assignments:
 

Unit 2: Philadelphia and Transatlantic Culture

Week 3 Jan 21: No Class. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Jan 23: Read Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, pp. 3-85. .

Jan 25: Independent Excursion to Independence Hall (on your own). Click HERE for the assignment (due Jan 28).

Week 4

Jan 28: Read Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, pp. 85-191, and view Benjamin West, Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (on-line).

Jan 30: Read Benjamin Franklin, "The Way to Wealth" (in our Penguin Franklin, pp. 215-225); also review in the Autobiography pp. 116-21 (on George Whitefield); George Whitefield, "The Pharisee and the Publican" (photocopy and on-line); John Wollaston, George Whitefield [Attitude of Preaching] (on-line); "Dr. Squintum's Exaltation; or, The Reformation" (on-line); Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of the Reverend George Whitefield" (photocopy). Finally, take a look at the original woodcut from original broadside version of Wheatley's elegy for Whitefield (on-line).

Recitation Feb 1: Discussion on Franklin, Whitefield, and Wheatley. Assignment: From the short list of topics we will hand to you, write 2 one-page sermons on the same topic, one written from a Whitefield-Calvinist perspective and one written from a Franklin-Capitalist perspective. In class, be prepared to perform at least one of your sermons with gusto.