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The New United States: A “Christian Nation”?
Politicians and pop history writers squabble endlessly about whether America was founded as a "Christian...
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The Constitution “Divinely Inspired”? Ben Franklin Answers
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Top Five Books on Benjamin Franklin
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Ben Franklin, Anti-Catholicism, and the Founding of the University of Pennsylvania
Historians have generally cast the founding of the University of Pennsylvania (or the College of...
September 2015
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The Ex-Baptist Pastor Who Popularized Ben Franklin’s Electrical Experiments
James Delbourgo's A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America offers a remarkable...
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