The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the War of Independence ... Stacy Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin.

from his work with the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War to his service as Vice President and President of the United States. Benjamin Franklin even appears in John Adams ...