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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...