Friends Select School

Friends Select School is a college-preparatory, Quaker school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade located at 1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the intersection of Cherry and N. 17th Streets in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Friends education dating to 1689, Friends Select, which was founded in 1833, has been located on this sire 17th St. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Friends Select School has hosted 10 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1997 Speech. The year with the most events was 2002 with four events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2004 with an average of 2,829 views per video. Most appearances with Bob Cotter (3). Most common tags: Early American History (1600-1850), African Americans, African American History.

Recent Programs

April 30, 2008
The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me

Jonathan Rieder talked about his book, The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.…
March 9, 2004
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

Catherine Clinton talked about her book, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, published by Little Brown and Company. In the book, the…
November 12, 2002
Benjamin Franklin

Edmund Morgan talked about his biography Benjamin Franklin, published by Yale University Press. Mr. Morgan explored the various…
November 5, 2002
Churchill

John Lukacs discussed his biography Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian, published by Yale University Press. It is his assessment…