In 1731, book lover Franklin created the Library Company of Philadelphia, where this week visitors can see a collection of ...
More than 150 artifacts related to Benjamin Franklin spanning books, broadsides, letters, and manuscripts will sell at ...
In 1738, Benjamin Franklin wasn’t yet the revolutionary history remembers him to be. It had been 10 years since he had set up a printing house and nine since he began to publish the Pennsylvania ...
APALACHICOLA, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - It’s been 238 years since the U.S. Constitution was signed, and Florida marked the milestone with a new monument honoring one of the nation’s ...
Avaricious American authors out to capitalize on the renown of the Founding Fathers have always known to take a reading of the zeitgeist when deciding how to portray their subjects. George Washington ...
We must either hang together or be hanged separately.” Ben Franklin warned of the need for unity among the colonists as they declared independence in 1776. He was a keen ...