Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have written many famed expressions, some legitimately and others without evidence. There is no documented evidence that Franklin ever made this ...

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 ...

Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between ...

Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...