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 ...

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

Michael Douglas says he had his work cut out for him turning into Benjamin Franklin for his new Apple TV+ series. Talking ...

In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and ...