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And came for a particular type of freedom and had to Work Together for a first ethically diverse society, ethnic and religious and background diversity truly leads to creativity. It was that sort of bubbling mix there that allows philadelphia to become a place of great commerce, but also, a place of great middle class entreprene entrepreneursh entrepreneurship. Startup and innovation. Benjamin franklin eventually decides after being an apprentice to a printer there to start his own print shop. And goes over to england, buys the type and the found rips and stuff. Back then, philadelphia had i think 11 newspapers and he starts the 12th. It was really great in the days in which it was great competing voices and there were newspapers for the and he kans and for penn family and the propry tories and people loyal to the crown and ben franklin starts the first really independent newspaper, not affiliated with any faction but really being ....
His brother, who i mentioned was an older brother, and being an older brother, would not let franklin write for the newspaper. So franklin ends up writing under a pseudonym, Silence Dogood. He puts a pen name on it and slips the essays he does under the door of his brothers print shop. And the brother and his friends. Running the print shop, have no idea where theyre coming from. And franklin has put on the persona of a widowed, elderly woman living in the countryside of massachusetts and writing these essays. The triumph of the imagination, a kid who was then 15 years old and never left boston, but writing in this voice. And its a distinctly american voice. She begins and introduces herself in the first of the Silence Dogood columns in the new england current by saying let me introduce myself. Im a woman of Strong National ....
[ applause ] okay. American history tv on cspan 3 continues tuesday night. Starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a look at mismanagement of the u. S. Nuclear arsenal from 1945 to 1950. After that the evolution of military Weapons Technology from napoleon to the military drones used today. And also a discussion about the 6,000 american soldiers captured during the siege of charleston in the revolutionary war. American history tv is on cspan each night this week, starting at 8 00 eastern. The Democratic National convention from philadelphia starts today. Watch live every minute on cspan. Listen live on the free cspan radio app. Its easy to download from the apple store or google play. Watch live on demand anytime at cspan. Org. On your desktop, phone or tablet, where youll find all of our Convention Coverage and th ....