As for Benjamin Franklin — he was a humble sort ... when a 1958 Full Bell Line Franklin half dollar sold for $129,500. Here are 13 Franklin half dollars that have sold for at least five figures ...

Musk has called the inventor and public servant a hero. But Franklin had a different vision of serving the public.

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 ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...