Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer ... “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with great ease.” This brief account of the statesman’s mathematical ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

Let’s go around the room and first with you, Bill. What did you mean when you say in the title in your book that Benjamin Franklin was the first American? The First American? MR. BRAND ...

A new book examines the evolution of the American ... and France Greg Daugherty Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of ...

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 ...