Benjamin Franklin

Geo Washington painting Valley Forge

How the 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic changed medicine, launched a free press and helped win the American Revolution

Sep 16, 2016

Franklin asked, "Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens?"

‘Droves’ of German migrants arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1750s and Benjamin Franklin went berserk

Sep 16, 2015

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From Poland: The Mesmerizing Tones of Glassduo

Aug 15, 2013

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Aug 14, 2013

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American values: thrift

Aug 14, 2013