Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

Edited from his Manuscript, with Notes and an Introduction, by JOHN BIGELOW. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott & Co. IN his Introduction Mr. Bigelow tells us the very interesting story of the chance ...

Based on volumes 1-15 of The papers of Benjamin Franklin ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Oct. 6, 2023, marks the 300th anniversary of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia, and some events are happening to commemorate the occasion. Around 9 a.m.

Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man. After getting his start in the printing business, he went on to establish himself as a leading writer and political thinker in the English colonies in ...

FRANKLIN -- For the third year in a row, Franklin Public Library held a “readathon” of the entirety of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography on Jan 16, timed to mark the 313 th anniversary of Franklin’s ...

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THERE are many reasons for welcoming Mr. Van Doren’s distinguished life of Benjamin Franklin. In style and arrangement it is a biography in the best classic traditions of that art. The modesty of the ...