{"id":1921,"date":"2013-06-25T19:49:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:49:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:49:33","slug":"national-archives-puts-founding-fathers-papers-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/06\/25\/national-archives-puts-founding-fathers-papers-online\/","title":{"rendered":"National Archives puts Founding Fathers\u2019 papers online"},"content":{"rendered":"
The story is told of Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin and John Adams sharing a bed in a room with one window while staying in a New Jersey tavern in 1776.<\/p>\n

Adams, afraid of the night air, closed the window. \u201cOh!\u201d said Franklin. \u201cDont shut the Window. We shall be suffocated\u00a0.\u2009.\u2009.\u00a0Open the Window and come to bed, and I will convince you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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Adams,\u00a0<\/span>writing in his diary<\/a>, said he complied and got into bed. Franklin \u201cthen began an harrangue, upon Air and cold and Respiration and Perspiration, with which I was so much amused that I soon fell asleep, and left him and his Philosophy together.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On Thursday, the National Archives plans to launch a new online tool that brings together the papers of Adams \u2014 including his diary \u2014 and George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0\u201cFounders Online\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Web site makes the papers of these historic figures available for the first time in a\u00a0free, searchable Internet source<\/a>, the Archives says, and gives \u201ca first-hand account of the growth of\u00a0democracy and the birth of the Republic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, the Archives has helped publish original records of the Revolutionary War era. Documents were collected, transcribed, annotated and issued in hundreds of volumes.<\/p>\n

That project is still underway, and it is the contents of those volumes that are now going online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is huge,\u201d David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, said Wednesday. \u201cI can remember from my earliest days in the libraries at MIT as a shelver, shelving those blessed volumes.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n

Access Founders Online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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