Inspired by the American Philosophical Society’s digitization of Benjamin Franklin’s postal records and by its involvement in “The Cybernetics Thought CVollective I(nitiative: A History of Science and Technology POrtal Project,” this book is based on a symposium that considered the different ways that social, scientific, and intellectual networks have influenced the pursuit of “useful knowledge.” The symposium was held in Benjamin Franklin Hall in Philadelphia on June 6-7, 2019. Illus.

Contents: Conjugating the Constitution -- From Noun to Verb; & Bicentennial Blues: To Praise the Constitution or to Bury It?, both by Laurence Tribe. Essays: The Dr. Richard Penrose Memorial Lecture: Remarks on the Constitutional Celebration, by Lord Scarman. Sympos. on the U.S. Constitution: The Miracle at Phila., by Arlin Adams; Separation of Powers -- Then & Now, by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Reflections on the First Amendment: The Evolution of the American Jurisprudence of Free Expression, by Geoffrey Stone; The U.S. Constitution as Social Compact, by Louis Henkin; Reflections on...

Includes: Unpacking the Meaning of Maps, Power, & Boundaries; The Legacy of Major Sebastian Bauman’s Map of the Siege of Yorktown; Mapping Old & New Empires in the Early U.S.; Cherokee Boundaries; Cherokee Territoriality, Anglo-Amer. Surveying, & the Creation of Borders in the Early 19th-Cent. West; Chickasaw & Cherokee Resistance to Amer. Colonization, 1785-1816; Hydrography, Natural History, & the Sea in the 19th Cent.; William Darby’s “A Map of the State of Louisiana” & the Extension of Amer, Sovereignty over the “Neutral Ground” in the Louisiana-Texas...

Some essays includs: Jefferson’s Evolving Plans for a University for America; The Inductive Sciences of Education in the Early Republic; Jefferson’s Indian Hall at the University of Virginia; The American Philosophical Society, 1743-46; Spanish Imperial Geography and the Early Republic in the Age of Jefferson; Andre Michaux, Jefferson, and the “Injunction of Science”; Jefferson, Inoculation, and the Norfolk Riots; Jefferson, Military Technology, and the State; Jefferson’s Architecture as Applied Science; Jefferson’s System for Working from Home; Polite Sociability and Jewish...