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.

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 ...

Based on volumes 1-15 of The papers of Benjamin Franklin ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Pittsburgh Professor Michael Meyer talked about his book, “Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming week. The latest Pittsburgh show on Hearst’s Very Local streaming service, available via Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Android TV and ...

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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 ...