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 ...

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.

This week host Evelyn Funda continues the theme of comfort food and how how the language of food united Ben Franklin and his ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that ...

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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 ...

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 ...