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 ...

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 and is famously known as one of the foremost Founding Fathers of the U.S. He was also a renowned printer, publisher, inventor, author, and diplomat. He was a ...

Let’s talk about the kite and the lightning storm. In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that ...

In late 1772 Benjamin Franklin received a startling package from an unknown sender. It was a collection of letters from several high-ranking colonial officials in Massachusetts written to Thomas ...

What it’s about: The man who adorns the $100 bill was a true Renaissance man, as his beginnings as a printer and newspaper editor led him to leanings as an author and essayist, but also as a political ...

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 ...

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