America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

Benjamin Franklin

2 pages in this part of America First.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was the youngest member of a family of seventeen children. His father was a poor man, who made his living by boiling soap…

Benjamin Franklin: Philadelphia

After a while, Franklin and his brother had a quarrel, and they separated. Franklin tried to get work in Boston, but was refused…

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