When the First Continental Congress adjourned in October of 1774, the delegates agreed to meet again in Philadelphia on May 5, 1775. Between the First and the Second …
The following letter from “An American Guesser” was published in the Pennsylvania Journal on December 27, 1775. Its author has been identified as Benjamin Franklin. …
The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was the first American abolition society. It was founded April 14, 1775, in …
On this day in 1774, dissenting British minister Joseph Priestley, author of Observations on Civil Liberty and the Nature and Justice of the War with …
Edward Snowden and the NSA documents. Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables. Daniel Elsberg and the Pentagon papers. Benjamin Franklin and the Hutchinson letters? …
Benjamin Franklin on the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, written November 29, 1766: “I think the best way of doing good to …
In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ …
By the mid 1700’s Britain was at its height of power, but was also heavily in debt. Since the creation of the Bank of England, …
Join or Die Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that …
Ben Franklin Letter to Joseph Huey (dated June 6, 1753): “I can only show my gratitude for these mercies from God, by a readiness to …
