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

Recently, a Texas lawmaker introduced legislation to replace Ben Franklin’s name and likeness on the $100 with President ...

Founding father Benjamin Franklin was a versatile inventor, and one of his many contributions to humanity include libraries ...

April’s a hotshot month. Everyone’s celebrating something. On the 17th — who knows what year, I couldn’t read the writing — ...

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 ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War, New Bedford is launching a new campaign with a special brew.

In a full-battalion-to-remind-you-of-my-love kind of missive, George Washington informed the Canadians that Benedict Arnold ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.