Libraries in the United States began when Benjamin Franklin donated books for the founding of the Franklin Public Library in ...

Aerospace analysts say converting a questionably sourced aircraft for presidential transport does not make financial sense ...

A call to rediscover America’s grandfather, Benjamin Franklin: The Most Modern of the Founding Fathers, urges readers to apply Franklin’s timeless principles to today’s challenges. Skousen offers ...

Benjamin Franklin famously observed, “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” It wasn’t until 1797 that U.S. politicians, in their wisdom, combined death and taxes, ...

Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose latest book is “The Revolutionary ... no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon ...

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Franklin’s willingness ... Instead of confronting the man’s hostility, Franklin asked to borrow a rare book from his library. Flattered, the man obliged.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

But what does that mean? Thinking about this, my mind turned to a recent book about Benjamin Franklin by journalist Eric Weiner, “Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and ...

(Sample: “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, postmaster, inventor, scientist, polemicist, diplomat—he is ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work ... of electricity “can hardly be overestimated.” The book follows Franklin’s roles in the British colonies in America, the ...

(The book's title is "Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990, Volume 211.") On June 8, 2023, the United ...