It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...

He’s 73, with an animal on his head,” notes one observer when clapping eyes on Benjamin Franklin – and Benjamin Franklin’s ...

Bensalem’s Growden Mansion was once owned by wealthy Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin and son William were regular ...

Letters: That picture of the Who’s Who of American super-wealth in the first row at President Trump’s inauguration haunts me. It’s the visual definition of oligarchy.

Franklin and Revolution features Ken Burns; Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History, Rutgers University. Moderated by Marty Moss ...

Franklin and Writing features Ken Burns; Christopher Brown, Professor of History, Columbia University; and Jane Kamensky, Professor of History, Harvard University. Moderated by Bina Venkataraman ...