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1. 'The Great Compromise' DRAFTING THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, 1787.

Author

Rakove, Jack N.

Subjects
*CONSTITUTIONS, *CONFERENCES & conventions, *SCHOLARS, *HISTORY, UNITED States politics & government
Abstract

Provides a history of the drafting of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in May 1787. Description of the Federal Convention of 1787; Date of the adjournment of the convention; Attempt of scholar Charles Beard to explain the adoption of the Constitution.

Published
1987

2. 'A Most Critical Time' Philadelphia in 1793.

Author

Gragg, Larry

Subjects
*FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799, *EIGHTEENTH century, *YELLOW fever, *HISTORY, HISTORY of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Abstract

Reports on the events in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1793. Effect of the French revolution to life in the United States (U.S.) ; Concerns on the arrival of French Minister Edmund Charles Genet in the U.S.; Facts on the outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia.

Published
1979

3. A Genius for Amusement.

Subjects
*EXHIBITIONS, *HISTORY, FRANKLIN Court (Philadelphia, Pa.), HISTORY of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Abstract

Describes the exhibits on display at Franklin Court, an imaginative complex of buildings at the site of Benjamin Franklin's Market Street house in Philadelphia. City's preparations to mark the bicentenary of Franklin's death in 1790; Brief overview of Franklin's life.

Published
1990

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