But as month after month passed with no word on Benjamin’s voyage home, it became clear that history was repeating itself. This time Franklin would be gone for ten years, teasing his imminent ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin ... apparent at the time of writing—a man who was actively complicit in the slave trade. President John Adams hailed Franklin’s benefaction ...

and Benjamin and Deborah Franklin raised him together in their Philadelphia home. Benjamin, who by the time of William’s early childhood was a man of means and stature in Philadelphia ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin ... he had to win America's independence. Franklin's influence was unmatched in his time, and his impact remains with us today.