Keywords American identity, Revolutionary War, literature, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, political writings, colonial printing, emerging ...

Interest in America’s revolutionary era ebbs and flows ... Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding grandfather. He’s been called the first American, but not ...

and with John Jay they negotiated the Treaty of Paris that officially ended The Revolutionary War. Of the "Founding Fathers," Benjamin Franklin alone signed the three pivotal documents ...

Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin knew better ... gentlemen from other countries.” From the Revolutionary War until 1800, the Library Company served as ...

Bensalem’s Growden Mansion was once owned by wealthy Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin and son William were regular ...

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin ... notes the Mount Vernon website, "revolutionary France, already fighting Austria and Prussia, declared war on England, Holland and Spain, embroiling ...

We not only get a look at Tallmadge’s actions and adventures during the war, but also some insights into military service and the spycraft of the times, Patriot life under British occupation, and more ...