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 fly a ...

AN ELECTRIFYING DISCOVERY: Benjamin Franklin was no stranger to the eminent historian Edmund S. Morgan when Mr. Morgan set out to read the statesman and inventor’s complete papers several years ago.

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 Washington ...

Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...

Franklin originally wrote the quote in 1722. It was included in one of a series of letters that were published in his older brother James' newspaper, The New-England Courant. All of the letters were ...

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB) is the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s scholarly magazine, published since 1877. PMHB publishes original research or interpretation ...

THERE are many reasons for welcoming Mr. Van Doren’s distinguished life of Benjamin Franklin. In style and arrangement it is a biography in the best classic traditions of that art. The modesty of the ...