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 ...

AN ELECTRIFYING DISCOVERY: Benjamin Franklin was no stranger to the eminent historian Edmund S. Morgan when Mr. Morgan set out to read the statesman and inventor’s complete papers several years ago.

It would be difficult to conjure what the United States of America would have become without George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. One can argue it might have been stillborn. Such is the impact ...

In the new Apple TV+ series Franklin, Benjamin Franklin spends a lot of his time waiting. He waits for recognition from the French court. He waits for news—preferably something good—from America. He ...

Franklin originally wrote the quote in 1722. It was included in one of a series of letters that were published in his older brother James' newspaper, The New-England Courant. All of the letters were ...

The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the American colonial Revolutionary War against Britain, and determined the boundaries of the United States, including the future Minnesota territory. American ...

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THERE are many reasons for welcoming Mr. Van Doren’s distinguished life of Benjamin Franklin. In style and arrangement it is a biography in the best classic traditions of that art. The modesty of the ...