{"id":804,"date":"2006-01-17T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2006\/01\/17\/happy-birthday-ben-franklin\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:37:39","slug":"happy-birthday-ben-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2006\/01\/17\/happy-birthday-ben-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Ben Franklin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. To find out more about this Founding Father, here are a few free web links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benfranklin300.org\/\">Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary<\/a>: The official 300th birthday site. Find out about celebrations being held around the country and in the U.K.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/benfranklin\/\">Benjamin Franklin<\/a>: The companion site for the PBS documentary. Includes a timeline, quiz, and a teacher&#8217;s guide.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.clusty.com\/\">Clusty&#8217;s Benjamin Franklin Portal<\/a>: (From the website) &#8220;a comprehensive, one-stop site that includes carefully curated educational resources, Franklin&#8217;s own writings and proverbs, and tens of thousands of websites scattered throughout cyberspace.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pottsvillelibrary.org\/BFranklin.htm\">Benjamin Franklin Web Guide<\/a>: Pottsville Free Public Library (PA) has put together an annotated list of online resources about the man who founded the nation&#8217;s first public library in 1731 (really!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also find lots of books by and about Ben Franklin right here in Langsdale Library, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(1972). <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Benjamin Franklin: A Biography in his Own Words.<\/span> Ed. by Thomas Fleming (E302.6.F7 A23 1972)<\/li>\n<li>Brands, H.W. (2000). <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin<\/span> (E302.6.F8 B83 2000)<\/li>\n<li>Franklin, Benjamin (1874). <span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Life of Benjamin Franklin<\/span> (E302.6.F7 A2 1874)<\/li>\n<li>Franklin, Benjamin (1976). <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758<\/span> (PS749 .A3 1976)<\/li>\n<li>Srodes, James (2002). <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Franklin: The Essential Founding Father<\/span> (E302.6.F8 S85 2002)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like help finding more information, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/info_services\/contact.htm\">contact the Langsdale Reference Desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:gray\">Posted by Tami Smith to <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/news\/resources\/2006\/01\/happy-birthday-ben-franklin_17.html\">resources<\/a> at 1\/17\/2006 12:48:00 PM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. To find out more about this Founding Father, here are a few free web links: Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: The official 300th birthday site. Find out about celebrations being held around the country <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2006\/01\/17\/happy-birthday-ben-franklin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Happy Birthday, Ben Franklin!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}