Researchers have uncovered previously unknown money-printing innovations developed by Benjamin Franklin, and one of them told Newsweek which one of those innovations served a double purpose. Franklin, ...

Avaricious American authors out to capitalize on the renown of the Founding Fathers have always known to take a reading of the zeitgeist when deciding how to portray their subjects. George Washington ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

During his career, Benjamin Franklin printed nearly 2,500,000 money notes for the American Colonies using what the researchers have identified as highly original techniques. Benjamin Franklin may be ...

Travel enabled him to cast his gaze beyond Puritan Boston and imagine fresh possibilities. What advice might the peripatetic founder offer us modern-day travelers? Here are five lessons, culled from ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin Franklin) and Noah Keyishian (playing William Franklin) in “Franklinland” Credit: Jeremy Daniel When you think of famous scientists of the early ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin Franklin) and Noah Keyishian (playing William Franklin) in “Franklinland” Credit: Jeremy Daniel He and his son are the subject of the play ...