PHILADELPHIA — Can an underground museum devoted to a Founding Father compete with the charms of national icons — or a foodie paradise that takes up an entire block? Can it appeal to visitors who ...

This Fourth of July, let us turn to a surprising but inspiring role model in the time-honored tradition of self-improvement: Benjamin Franklin. Franklin, a beloved Founding Father, was deeply ...

Franklin’s musical invention, the armonica, became a sensation in Europe. Franklin developed a musical instrument that he called the armonica (after the Italian word for harmony). To play the armonica ...

Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and the author of several essays on Benjamin Franklin. There was a time, ...

Social media platforms have long proved a popular outlet for the circulation of quotes from well-known figures, with a significant proportion of them being mistattributed or apocryphal. A ...

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 is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

“Franklin” director Tim Van Patten, who won Emmys for “Boardwalk Empire” and “The Pacific,” says that although he loves history and is a history buff “this was a slice of history I was not aware of.” ...

Intriguingly, this is what’s known as the “Ben Franklin effect”: when, after doing someone a favor, you actually begin to like them more, despite having felt neutral or indifferent about them ...

The creation of DST is usually credited to George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand artist and amateur bug collector who first proposed the idea in an 1895 paper, but 100 years earlier, Benjamin Franklin, ...