The Founding Fathers were a quiltwork of conflicting personalities. George Washington was dignified and coolly aloof. Thomas ...

Power lines are a regular part of our day-to-day lives now as they carry electricity through the world, but when were they first invented?

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, came to symbolize for many what it meant to be an American during the Revolutionary War with his unadorned clothes and speech, quick wit, and ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

THE Harvard University Press and Mr. Cohen have performed a very useful service in making Franklin's “Experiments and Observations” accessible in this convenient form. Mr. Cohen has written an ...