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April’s a hotshot month. Everyone’s celebrating something. On the 17th — who knows what year, I couldn’t read the writing — ...
It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...
Maybe it’s time to revive Franklin’s wisdom not just as a historical footnote, but as a model for modern living. America ...
Recently, a Texas lawmaker introduced legislation to replace Ben Franklin’s name and likeness on the $100 with President ...
We speak with Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International ...
From the ahupuaʻa of Honolulu to Kalihi, which all lie in the moku of Kona here on Oʻahu, stands a heavily used roadway named ...
A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...
In a full-battalion-to-remind-you-of-my-love kind of missive, George Washington informed the Canadians that Benedict Arnold ...
Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...
Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.