The man considered the most brilliant American of his age rarely saw the inside of a classroom. Franklin spent just two years attending Boston Latin School and a private academy before joining the ...

The famous saying captures the importance of education and personal development, but there is a surprising detail behind its ...

Benjamin Franklin designed a 200-year compounding experiment to fund a city, and his math was flawless. What happened when ...

Benjamin Franklin: hater of eagles, champion of turkeys, and father of founding things. That includes a son born out of ...

On June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin took a kite out during a storm to see if a key attached to the string would draw an electrical charge. Or so the story goes. In fact, historians aren’t quite sure ...

Josiah Franklin guided his children through moral teachings and gentle correction. Years ago, my father and I were ...

A new limited series starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin revisits the founding father’s years as the American ambassador to France Based on a True Story Vanessa Armstrong | History ...

Benjamin Franklin is one of the key figureheads of American history. A brilliant inventor, publisher, politician, and ambassador, the founding father wore many different hats in his lifetime. But did ...

Benjamin Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1778/Credit: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Premiering Monday and Tuesday, April 4-5 on PBS (check local listings), ...

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 fly a ...