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 ...
If you're looking for a summer read, Walter Isaacson's new biography of Benjamin Franklin may be just what you need. Isaacson and NPR's Steve Inskeep discuss Franklin as a newspaperman in America's ...
Bundled-up residents and visitors gathered Saturday to celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday and to welcome a new ...
The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the American colonial Revolutionary War against Britain, and determined the boundaries of the United States, including the future Minnesota territory. American ...
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