"Join, or Die" is a political cartoon showing a snake broken into eight pieces, and was first seen in Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper in 1754. This political cartoon (attributed to Benjamin ...

copy of The Pennsylvania Gazette brought $50,000. Prominent on the front page of the newspaper is what is believed to be a first printing of “Join, or Die,” Franklin’s cartoon featuring a ...

A copy of Benjamin Franklin's newspaper The Pennsylvania ... That same year, a 1754 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette, which features the original version of the cartoon, was auctioned off for ...

The 264-year-old "JOIN ... Pennsylvania Gazette. The Library of Congress in Washington D.C is believed to possess the only other remaining copy of this historic document. On May 9, 1754, Benjamin ...

Benjamin Franklin published his famous “Join or Die” cartoon on May 9, 1754, in his Pennsylvania Gazette. In addition, he wrote an op-ed that argued for a more unified colonial government.

It was published in Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette 258 years ago today and is generally credit to him. It accompanied an editorial by Franklin which called for colonial unity -- not against the ...

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), in addition to being a scientist, inventor, philosopher, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a prolific writer, best known for his annual ...

On a dark, stormy summer night in 1752, Benjamin Franklin ... on the experiment. "[Franklin] published a statement about the experiment in the Pennsylvania Gazette, the newspaper he published ...

Five weeks had passed since the death of Benjamin Franklin’s son ... confronted it in the pages of his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette. “Inasmuch as some People are, by that [rumor] ...