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 ...

When PBS stations air a documentary on Benjamin Franklin this November, many TV viewers will be introduced to 86-year-old Edmund S. Morgan, a featured commentator on the program and a leading colonial ...

Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...

There’s a phenomenon in America that’s almost as shocking as discovering that Ben Franklin really did discover electricity by flying a kite in the rain. American readers are finally lifting the ban on ...

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 ...

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