Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, came to symbolize for many what it meant to be an American during the Revolutionary War with his unadorned clothes and speech, quick wit, and ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Franklin’s willingness to change his views based on new evidence offers a powerful lesson for today’s political climate. Early in his life, Franklin opposed ...

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 ...

Thinking about this, my mind turned to a recent book about Benjamin Franklin ... Weiner considers Franklin to be “the least dead” founding father. Franklin’s autobiography has been called ...

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 ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin ... in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: 10/21/11). A new biography of Franklin, titled Ingenious ...

“Science, rather than being a sideline, is the through line that integrates [Benjamin] Franklin’s diverse interests,” according to this electrifying portrait of the founding father’s ...

American statesman Benjamin Franklin crossed the Atlantic eight times in his long life. This circa 1888 print shows the Founding Father arriving in France. As a young boy growing up in Boston ...

A newspaper clipping accurately quotes antisemitic comments by Benjamin Franklin ... 28144693.pdf&is_image=False. Accessed 10 ...

The newspaper clipping was authentic, published by anti-Communist and antisemitic newspaper Common Sense on Nov. 15, 1966. However, it was unknown how, or with what evidence, the newspaper ...