In this issue: using yesteryear’s advertisements to inspire contemporary classroom research; a compelling profile of a portrait-painting virtuoso; inferring the political intentions of a prominent...
Highlighted below are four newly added items in the major new enrichment to the Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker collections. These diverse works, now available for the first time in Readex digital editions...
In this issue: helping young African-American scholars move toward new academic heights; six-foot-under censorship in the honor-bound Old South; and a Founding Father's focus on frugality shapes the...
Carla Mulford, Dept. of English, Penn State University In December 2008 an essay about one of Benjamin Franklin’s cleverest hoaxes was published in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical...
From Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1980 Many of us have read about Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work with electricity, but few know that this Renaissance man is also responsible for...
