Today at noon: Political cartoon talk at Library of Congress

Sara Duke will be giving a public presentation on Wednesday, July 1 at noon on the first American political cartoon – published in 1747 in Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet, Plain Truth: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bay-psalm-book-and-american-printing/online-exhibition.html#franklin-as-colonial-printer (to see the cartoon, click on the image of Plain Truth). The presentation will take place in the First Among Many: The Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments in American Printing exhibition in the South Gallery  – go through the Civil Rights Act exhibition, past Thomas Jefferson's library, and around the corner to the South Gallery.

More information at

Ben Franklin, America's first genius of the viral political image

By Michael Cavna July 1 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/07/01/ben-franklin-americas-first-genius-of-the-viral-political-image/