A rare pair of trees named after Philadelphia's patron saint Benjamin Franklin are coming to Philly. Why it matters: Franklin is an icon — and he has a lot named after him in the region. Driving ...

, home of the First Continental Congress. None other than Ben Franklin himself will join the Carpenters' Company, OLIN, Bartram's Garden, and the National Park Service to plant the two, six-foot ...

And he designed the first currency of the Continental Congress in 1775, depicting 13 colonies as linked rings forming a circle, within which "We are one" was inscribed.

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin. In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to Congress, arguing it was in America's ...

Six weeks before last November's election, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took swipes at President Trump and then-Sen. J.D. Vance.

The U.S. postal system, under Benjamin Franklin's leadership, was created by the Second Continental Congress on July 26, 1775 — aiding communication during the American Revolution and beyond.

Ben Franklin High School students gather outside their school for their protest over anti-LGBTQ legislation on Friday, March 31, 2023 in New Orleans.

Benjamin Franklin has made a lasting impression on US currency — and not just as the face of the US$100 note. Franklin, a founding father of the United States, also developed clever anti ...

Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but Franklin had an idea. He conceived of a library with a subscription fee, the Library Company of Philadelphia , which he founded in 1731.

President-elect Donald Trump has long threatened to ax the nation’s mail agency, created in Independence Hall by the Second Continental Congress, and older than the nation itself.