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12019-02-08T20:46:20-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72003Eleanor Andersenplain2019-02-09T14:06:26-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aYou have already observed two competing versions of the story of Pennsylvania. By now you should be familiar with the story painted by artist Benjamin West in Penn's Treaty with the Indians, as well as the story documented by historian Kevin Kenny in Peaceable Kingdom Lost. You will now read an excerpt from a contemporaneous, eighteenth-century printed account written by Benjamin Franklin. Afterwards, you will answer the following reflection questions.
Steps
Read and the assigned secondary and primary sources.
What does the painting suggest about life in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania? Who do you see represented? What is happening?
What does Benjamin Franklin's narrative suggest about life in eighteenth century Pennsylvania? What happens in his narrative? Who appears in his narrative? Does this square with the article?
How do these two sources differ in terms of content and tone? How did you feel about the experience of “reading” both the painting and the narrative?
Which of these stories were you more familiar with before class today? Why do you think that is? Reflect on the Do-Now.
Why do you think the painting was commissioned? What story does it tell about the history of Pennsylvania? Feel free to speculate.
Try to answer the prior question by doing some light research. Start by finding out more about Benjamin West & Benjamin Franklin. Feel free to use Google. (Library, museum, and university websites tend to contain the most trusted information.)
12017-03-28T17:37:24-07:00Cantonment of His Majesty's Forces in N. America (1766)2Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disposition now made & to be compleated as soon as practicable taken from the general distribution dated at New York 29th. March 1766.plain2019-06-01T00:42:18-07:00
12016-08-19T12:58:28-07:00A Narrative of the Late Massacres - 31A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians, friends of this province, by persons unknown. With some observations on the same.2016-08-19T12:58:28-07:00
