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Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz.Agassiz accompanied her husband on his journey to Brazil in 1865-6 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-2; of the second, she wrote an account for the Atlantic Monthly.

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Benjamin Franklin

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the scientist, writer, printer, diplomat and American founding father Benjamin Franklin.

1 March 2012

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Featuring: Simon Middleton, Simon Newman, Patricia Fara

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Culture Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees People associated with electricity American philosophers of education Humor researchers Activists for African-American civil rights American philosophers of culture Creators of writing systems Writers about religion and science American slave owners Rhetoric theorists Recreational cryptographers, Writers from Boston, Writers from Philadelphia American male non-fiction writers Independent scientists Independent scholars American people of English descent American deists Writers about activism and social change Simple living advocates American political philosophers 18th-century American politicians, American Freemasons, Signers of the United States Constitution Philosophy writers American autobiographers American philosophers of religion Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Philosophers of technology Masonic grand masters Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Theorists on Western civilization Philosophers of science Philosophers of history Recipients of the Copley Medal Political activists from Pennsylvania Philosophers from Massachusetts 18th-century American writers, Founding Fathers of the United States, People of the American Enlightenment American male journalists Social philosophers Members of the American Philosophical Society 18th-century pseudonymous writers Aphorists Age of Enlightenment Philosophers of literature Fellows of the Royal Society 18th century America
Thoreau and the American Idyll

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American 19th century writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau

15 January 2009

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Featuring: Kathleen Burk, Tim Morris, Stephen Fender

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Philosophy Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees American philosophers of culture American male essayists, American male poets American lecturers Underground Railroad people Philosophers of love Anarchist writers American male non-fiction writers Critics of work and the work ethic American spiritual writers Simple living advocates American political philosophers 19th-century American poets 19th-century American philosophers Anti-consumerists 19th-century American non-fiction writers American philosophers of mind, American philosophers of science Philosophers of history Philosophers from Massachusetts 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis 19th-century American essayists Pantheists 19th century America