Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... who had emigrated from Ecton, England, Franklin became an American printer of national significance: the editor and ...

Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding ... because Franklin had a European reputation before the American Revolution ever began. He was-- he had done really important ...

In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and ...

In July 1757 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London ... to Franklin’s post-1775 correspondence. After the American Revolution erupted, Franklin spent nine years in France as the representative ...

Michael Douglas revealed why it was important for him to portray founding father Benjamin Franklin farting in Apple TV+'s new ...

Reinert, Sophus A. "The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American Capitalism." American Historical Review 120, no. 1 (February 2015): 61–97.

The Comte de Buffon is supposed to have meant much the same thing by his statement that the style is the man, and the concept is held in general esteem. It presents some difficulties, however, when ...

The 6-foot-tall Franklinia Alatamaha trees, better known as Franklin trees, will be planted at the historic building on ...