Benjamin Franklin Receives Honorary Degree in Williamsburg
Franklin is the recipient of the first honorary degree ever awarded by the College of William & Mary when he accepts a Master of Arts. Franklin informs his wife that the people of Virginia are "extreamly obliging and polite."
See the events in Williamsburg and other cities that created a revolutionary movement.
Follow the ways that religion informed revolutionary thought.
From clothing to theater, trace the impact of taste on empire and revolution.
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