Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

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 ...

But he was drawn to the subject, thanks in part to the master painter’s similarities to Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was the focus of a Burns documentary ... 18 and 19 on PBS.