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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 36
Volume 36: November 1, 1781, through March 15, 1782
As the volume opens, Franklin despairs of living long enough to see the war come to an end. He had been plagued by continued financial demands from Congress that he could not meet and was worried about how much further he...

The Correspondence & Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the "Life of Johnson"
Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
This valuable collection presents James Boswell’s quest over a period of some twenty years to amplify his personal knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, through correspondence with a wide network...

James Boswell's Life of Johnson
An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 2: 1766-1776
This is the second volume of the annotated transcription of James Boswell’s manuscript of The Life of Johnson, with its numerous complex revisions and wide array of supplementary materials. The transcription covers the...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 34
Volume 34: November 16, 1780, through April 30, 1781
This volume spans the period from late fall 1780 through the spring of 1781 and continues the documentation of Franklin’s mission as minister plenipotentiary to France. During these eventful months, Franklin averts a...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 5
Volume 5: July 1, 1753 through March 31, 1755

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 30
Volume 30: July 1 through October 31, 1779

Thomas Eakins Rediscovered
Charles Bregler`s Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
More than fifty years ago, a treasury of studio material—including oil sketches, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and manuscripts—was rescued from the empty house of Thomas Eakins by a devoted student, Charles Bregler....

The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 1, English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things
Publication of this volume brings to conclusion the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, a thirty-year publishing project of landmark importance in the study of humanism in Western history. The volume...

Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins
This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years—especially the last three million—has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from...

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 19
Volume 19: January 1 through December 31, 1772