Just west of Thirteenth Street on Liberty Street is the Mitchell Block, built by Forster Mitchell. Mitchell resided in the Exchange Hotel, also his creation, which sat across Liberty Street from the block. Seen here in the 1950s, ...
It is what makes this book important reading now and in the future.
... Trenchard and Gordon's Cato's Letters , Shaftesbury's Characteristics , Steele's Tatler , Defoe's Essay on Projects . ... and that the weaknesses of individuals were to be overcome through combination with others .
With Franklin, a new photographic history of the town and its people, well-known local historian and columnist James C. Johnston Jr. presents a sensitive retrospective of his hometown.
With Franklin, a new photographic history of the town and its people, well-known local historian and columnist James C. Johnston Jr. presents a sensitive retrospective of his hometown.
The entire text of the Autobiography is included alongside letters, essays, pamphlets, and manuscript notes that cover political economy, moral psychology, and religious belief and practice, among other topics.
To encourage industry and promote city expansion in the 1920s, the Franklin Kiwanis Club proclaimed its city Tennessee's Handsomest Town.
Hij wilde de laatste bezittingen van zijn makker niet in dit ijzige land achterlaten. Ze bevonden zich in een gebied waar grote plekken sneeuwvrij waren. Het glooide licht. Niel waarschuwde hem bij het uitstappen niet op de sneeuw te ...
In 1845 Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North...
Franklin presents the evolution of a town with a storied past and promising future, providing links to its history as a prosperous farming and manufacturing community.
In 1983, Vernon Barg was named Man of the Year by the Franklin Historical Society. Shown here supervising the move of St. ... Vernon followed in the footsteps of his father, Edward, who served as Franklin's town clerk for 32 years.
Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and ...
Paints a portrait of founding father Benjamin Franklin, arguing that the American republic would not have been possible without the Renaissance author, journalist, scientist, politician, diplomat, and bon vivant.