Lots of 18th-century philosophies have become extremely dated since America achieved independence, but one founding father's ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

Some of Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments—his kite experiment, establishing the first American subscription library, and signing the Declaration of Independence—are pretty iconic. Here are 10 of ...

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 as a sort ...

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 fly a ...

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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 fly a ...