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 ...

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 ...

Despite the crowd asserting it in Franklin, Benjamin Franklin neither invented nor discovered electricity. Per Mr. Electric, ...

Those coins permanently replaced the Benjamin Franklin 50-cent pieces, thus limiting the supply of the Franklin half dollars and contributing to current values that run into six figures.

Letters: That picture of the Who’s Who of American super-wealth in the first row at President Trump’s inauguration haunts me. It’s the visual definition of oligarchy.

April 12 Michael Douglas is Benjamin Franklin and Noah Jupe plays his son, Temple Franklin. Ludivine Sagnier plays Madame Anne-Louise Brillon, Olivier Claverie plays Mr. Chaumont, Marc Duret plays ...