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Benjamin Franklin and Agency: This Man was a Beast

Reading Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography (which I think is hilarious, by the way) I was thoroughly impressed by this amazing and quirky Renaissance man. I enjoy his writing style and subtle sarcasm and wit.  My over enthusiastic like of him may … Continue reading

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Ann Hutchinson’s Agency

While reading the trial scripts of Ann Hutchinson, I was amazed at how obviously gendered Puritan ideologies and cultural scripts were and how the authority seems to manipulate them in order to punish a woman for being a so called … Continue reading

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