It is only natural that a conversation about an autobiography turns to a conversation about vanity. After all, who writes a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words, “the youngest son of the youngest son for five Generations back.” Born to a Boston candlemaker who had emigrated from Ecton ... (his Autobiography).

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography that “the hard-to-be-governed passion of my youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way.” Indeed, he was ...

Now, thanks to years of dogged fundraising on both sides of the Atlantic, Benjamin Franklin's only surviving ... worked on his autobiography; and by experimenting with different metals, perfected ...

Did you know that the history of lending libraries in this country dates back to 1731, when Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company of Philadelphia?