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 ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

In a full-battalion-to-remind-you-of-my-love kind of missive, George Washington informed the Canadians that Benedict Arnold ...

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 ...

We speak with Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International ...

(Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin Franklin, then a humble Philadelphia printer ...

The members of the Chili Historical Society say the list of Remarkable Rochesterians doesn’t reflect the importance of agriculture.

Maybe it’s time to revive Franklin’s wisdom not just as a historical footnote, but as a model for modern living. America ...