, 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 ...

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.

Franklin’s ideas were inconsistent with Adams’s own experiences, he wrote, but he was curious to hear what Franklin had to say. So, even at the risk of a cold, he opened the window again and ...

As the story goes, the Continental Congress tasked Thomas Jefferson with writing the first draft of the Declaration of Independence… because they feared Ben Franklin would sneak in jokes.

Further negotiations led to a tentative pledge of support from France and, in September 1776 the Continental Congress appointed an official Commission that would be stationed in Paris.

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.

Ben Franklin On Display. December 13, 2005 / 2:08 PM EST / CBS/AP ... But it was preserved and is one of 75 items in the Library of Congress' exhibit, "Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words." ...

These are the times that try historians’ souls. The Founding Fathers had a big day on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, as members of Congress debated articles of impeachment against President Trump ...