Blueface decided to refresh a few of the many logos and images tattooed on his face this week, including the large Benjamin ...

A remarkable figure in American history, Benjamin Franklin was a polymath who left a lasting impact on the nation's foundation. His pragmatic counsel on time and work organization is still applicable ...

A new limited series starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin revisits the founding father’s years as the American ambassador to France Based on a True Story Vanessa Armstrong | History ...

Benjamin Franklin portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1778/Credit: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Premiering Monday and Tuesday, April 4-5 on PBS (check local listings), ...

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 is one of the key figureheads of American history. A brilliant inventor, publisher, politician, and ambassador, the founding father wore many different hats in his lifetime. But did ...

“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” appeared posthumously in 1791 and has “brought affliction to millions of boys since, whose fathers had read Franklin’s pernicious biography.” Or so said Mark ...

As Carla Mulford wrote in her article “Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory” from “The New England Quarterly”: “Franklin’s figure offers a representative case of the multiple ways ...