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 ...

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 ...

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 ...