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 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 ...

(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 ...

There are a handful of Leaders in Civilization 7 who weren't the head of state, or holders of the top executive office of a country – including Benjamin Franklin. Civ 7 adapts this American icon ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Benjamin Franklin was arguably the most famous American man of the 18th century. The Philadelphia scientist, inventor, author, diplomat ...