Dr Sarah Naramore, Lecturer in 19th-century US History, was a guest recently on Ben Franklin's World (@bfworld.bsky.social) to discuss the life and work of Benjamin Rush, a founding father of American medicine. Listen: edin.ac/3LznQn8

#History #AmericanHistory #BenFranklin #BenjaminRush #Edinburgh

Benjamin Rush's Birth Anniversary

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Holding the book "Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880" next to an old stone pillar with the depiction of an urn on it

"Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson

#VictorianStudies #MedicalHumanities

Picture of a newspaper page titled memory lane with an image of Benjamin Rush with a quote relaying how he believed no one man should hold absolute power.

📰😲 He's everywhere! Even in local newspapers, they can't resist quoting the gossip king himself, #BenjaminRush 🤫🗣🤯🎇 Learn more about the juicy #RevolutionaryWar drama on #ToriPhantom's #FoundedPodcast 🎙🎧 #LessonsFromHistory are still so relevant! 📚🌟 #PastMeetsPresent

#BenjaminRush said it best in 1800 after what was, at the time, considered the most divisive Presidential election in American history:
"In battle men kill, without hating each other; in political contests men hate without killing, but in that hatred they commit murder every hour of their lives."