It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

We speak with Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

In December 1776, nearly six months after the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from British rule, 70-year-old ...

Maybe it’s time to revive Franklin’s wisdom not just as a historical footnote, but as a model for modern living. America ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

(Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin Franklin, then a humble Philadelphia printer ...

Rep. Brandon Gill introduced a bill requiring all $100 bills to feature a picture of Donald Trump on the front face of the note.

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