ALA returns to Philadelphia for its 2025 Annual Conference (June 26–30), featuring authors, education programs, and ...

Our children’s-book critic rounds up the new titles a young reader needs on their shelf, from science to drama and ...

The Colonel Benjamin Logan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution invites you to join them on Saturday, June 14, at 2 p.m. to honor a true American patriot.

Sometimes it feels like if Philadelphia takes on one more national or international event in 2026 — even if it’s a wafer-thin ...

Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster general, and the ability to share information was key to the principle of free speech underpinning the American democratic experiment. Now the USPS is an ...

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 ... shake the sense that Washington and Franklin had got free passes. No one questioned their ...

Packaging is very easily the largest consumer of print in 2024. Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just this kind of printing work. Since it was cheaper to import large books from London ...

So what should we make of Benjamin Franklin? One popular image is that he was a free and easy libertine ... Franklin had been obliged to help print attacks against it in his brother’s newspaper ...

Without financial common sense as written by Benjamin Franklin in “The Way to Wealth“, “We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our ...

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 ...

in his critical edition of Franklin’s own long out-of-print “Experiments and Observations on Electricity,” and again in 1990 in a collection of essays, “Benjamin Franklin’s Science.” ...