For a good chunk of the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin, renowned polymath and one of the nation's founding fathers, ...

and his diplomatic efforts in France during the American Revolution. Franklin's legacy as a scientist, inventor, and ...

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

Later, while in France, he pioneered the idea of daylight ... Of the "Founding Fathers," Benjamin Franklin alone signed the three pivotal documents associated with the nation's birth: the ...

emerged as a potent symbol in 18th-century America and France Greg Daugherty Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels ...