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 fly a kite in a ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

The Founding Fathers were a quiltwork of conflicting personalities. George Washington was dignified and coolly aloof. Thomas ...

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In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Benjamin Franklin Britt was an American painter who was born in 1923. How much ...

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most prominent figures of American history. There was little that Franklin couldn’t do. The polymath was born into a modest family in 1706 and despite only two years of ...

“What a man!” I thought as I snapped a photo of an actor playing loveable Benjamin Franklin chatting up my daughter Genevieve when she was 7. But could the real Ben be unforgiving, poisoned with ...

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Power lines are a regular part of our day-to-day lives now as they carry electricity through the world, but when were they first invented?

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 ...