What did you mean when you say in the title in your book that Benjamin Franklin was the first American? The First American? MR. BRAND: I use the term in three senses. One is that in his lifetime ...

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 sustained by just this kind of ... the enigmatically titled “Mr. B.” Pamela was a huge hit in London, but it took Franklin more than two years to complete.

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

“You know,” he says to me. “You’re a clone of Benjamin Franklin. From the side.” I thank him. He walks off. Martha can’t stop laughing. Benjamin Franklin? Frankly, I don’t see the ...

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, England, Franklin became ...

First Steps is likely to introduce the mega-powerful son of Reed and Sue Richards, Franklin, who can reshape the MCU.