Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man. After getting his start in the printing business, he went on to establish himself as a leading writer and political thinker in the English colonies in ...

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 ...

In the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father reveals ... he owed his prolific productivity to a reliable routine. He’d rise at 5 a.m., spending the first two hours washing ...