Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

2004 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Walter Russell Mead ◽  
Walter Isaacson
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
American Life

Book Review: Benjamin Franklin: From Gifted to Genius: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 247-251
Author(s):  
John F. Feldhusen
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
American Life

Benjamin Franklin: an American life

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (05) ◽  
pp. 41-2999-41-2999
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
American Life

“Indebted to No One”

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Abrams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Mathematical Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Rural Identity ◽  
American Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth

In 1894, Ohio mathematician Benjamin Franklin Finkel founded The American Mathematical Monthly to engage a broader audience of mathematicians than were involved with the newly formed American Mathematical Society. Along with mathematical puzzles, articles, and discussions, the first ten volumes of the Monthly included biographies of American mathematicians who worked as teachers, writers, and broadly skilled practitioners. Although the details about each mathematician were different, their biographies often followed a similar narrative template to contemporary depictions of the self-made man. This article argues that the story of the self-made mathematician, as presented in early issues of the Monthly, helped ground mathematics in day-to-day American life while asserting ties to different forms of masculinity. Such assertions were particularly significant in the late nineteenth century when a professional mathematics community was taking shape in the United States, and its leaders were becoming increasingly focused on “modern,” abstract forms of research. By marshalling a variety of cultural tropes tied to self-making, physical labor, rural identity, and manhood, biographies in the Monthly offered a particular image of American mathematics at a time when the boundaries of the category “mathematician” were shifting, and what it meant to be an American mathematician had yet to be defined.

scholarly journals The lives of an American life - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and the idea of personal identity

Intelligere ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Joyce E. Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
American Life ◽  
Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

recorrendo aos campos da história dos impressos e da história da ciência - dois campos de importância indiscutível para entender Benjamin Franklin, o impressor da Filadélfia, e Benjamin Franklin, o famoso experimentador elétrico - este ensaio sugerirá que as memórias de Franklin são evidência de que ele pensou sobre si mesmo como encarnado em ações (como ele tinha se apresentado ao mundo, através de experimentos científicos) e como identificado em relação a outras pessoas, como ele tinha sido por muito tempo, como um colaborador em diversos projetos e como um correspondente. Isso é diferente do seu sentido desencarnado e individualista que a maioria das edições de sua autobiografia, como uma simples narrativa, lhe deram. Edições mais complexas e com diversos textos podem ser ao menos igualmente válidas, sobretudo para mostrar como ideias de identidade pessoal, nesse ponto da história, eram coletivas e encarnadas.

Benjamin Franklin and shock-induced amnesia.

2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Finger ◽  
Franklin Zaromb
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Franklin

Assimilation in American Life

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Mazen Hashem
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Assimilation ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
American Life ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Three Components

AbstractThe influx of Muslim immigrants into America has become steady inthe last decade, a development which raises the need for a theoretical outlookdelineating a model of an Islamic-controlled process of assimilation.Using Gordon’s model of assimilation, the paper suggests an Islamicposition regarding each of his seven types and stages of assimilation.In respect to cultural assimilation, the paper advocates an interactiveprocess of assimilation on the level of extrinsic cultural traits. Such a processutilizes six filtration procedures regarding different kinds of American culturalartifacts. But on the level of intrinsic cultural traits, the paper suggests acounterassimilation position, and considers it a cornerstone in keeping theoriginality of Islam.As to identificational assimilation, the paper defines Islamic boundariesrelevant to each of its three components: ethnic, national, and racial.The paper discusses behavior-receptional and attitude-receptional typesof assimilation in light of patterns of behavior that affect such reciprocity.The paper argues that civic assimilation is a crucial area where much ofthe Muslim community’s efforts could be invested.Finally, the paper briefly discusses marital assimilation and structuralassimilation.IntroductionAssimilation is an important subject that deserves careful considerationfrom minorities, marginal groups, and immigrants. The position of a groupon assimilation has far-reaching effects on its present and future, as well ...

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