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 ...

Governor of Rhode Island, Samuel Ward, inherited a 356-acre tract of property along Shore Road in Westerly from his father-in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

American Self-Reliance "How to succeed" books have been available in the United States since before the Industrial Revolution. Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, first published in 1732 ...