Posts Tagged ‘Ben Franklin’
History of Ben Franklin: The Original Founding Father?
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Part of the series on America 250, the US Semiquincentennial Podcast version [In my previous article, I discussed Alexander Hamilton, who founded America’s first political party, the Federalist Party.] e know this polymath as a writer, publisher, printer, merchant, scientist, moral philosopher, international diplomat, and inventor. He invented the…
Read MoreMovie Review: A Great Awakening, the history behind the movie
Reading Time: 9 minutesMOVIE REVIEW: A GREAT AWAKENING, THE HISTORY BEHIND IT “Arise, O sleeper, awaken!” his phrase, famously associated with the great evangelical preacher George Whitefield, is featured in his open-air sermon in Philadelphia in the movie A Great Awakening… “Let us proclaim freedom to the captives. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed! Arise,…
Read MoreHistory of Daylight Saving Time – Fall Back
Reading Time: 3 minutesHISTORY OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME – ENDING Daylight Saving Time, or DST, is a clever campaign to convince us that we’re getting more daylight each day when, in reality, we’ve simply changed our clocks and then forgotten about it within two weeks. DST begins each year at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March…
Read MoreHistory of James Madison: Father of the Constitution
Reading Time: 7 minutesHISTORY OF JAMES MADISON Part of the series on America 250, the US Semiquincentennial James Madison has been correctly called “the Father of the Constitution,” and one might think that the Constitution became active on July 5, 1776, but this is not how it happened. The American Constitution didn’t go into effect until almost a…
Read MoreHistory of Independence Day
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE DAY Independence Day, or the Fourth of July celebrates the adoption by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, of the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the severance of the allegiance of the American colonies to Great Britain. It is the most significant secular holiday in the United States, observed in all the…
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