With today’s installment we begin the passage from Chapter 3 portion of Ben Franklin’s AutobiographyContinuing Young Ben Franklin,our selection
Ben Franklin Leaves Boston
I sold some of my books to raise a little money, was taken on board privately, and as we had a fair wind, in three days I found myself in New
Ben Franklin Teaches Himself to Write
This encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.Continuing Young Ben
The Beginning of Queen Anne’s War
By far the most dangerous and harassing attacks were those of small parties skulking under the edge of the forest, or lying hidden for days together,
Young Ben Franklin
This series has six easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: His Child Reading.IntroductionFrom Chapter 2 Beginning Life as a
20 of the Most Important Moments in Internet History
From the latest happenings in things historical. This article 20 of the Most Important Moments in Internet History was published 22 days ago in Mental
Characteristics of the Early Frontiersmen
Today's installment concludes Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution,our selection from The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt published
Warfare Against American Indians on the Early Frontier
The whites soon copied from the Indians their system of individual and private warfare. They probably caused their foes far more damage and loss in
Who Won the West
The west would never have been settled save for the fierce courage and the eager desire to brave danger so characteristic of the stalwart