LONDON, England (CNN)-- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that ...

In July 1757 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London to ... approach—Winterer and co-workers don’t even read the Franklin letters that their computers enumerate. But the work is also winning ...

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 ...

That February Franklin, newly arrived in London ... For the better part of the next two years Deborah’s letters to Benjamin focused on the health, charm and virtues of the grandson who resembled ...

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

In a full-battalion-to-remind-you-of-my-love kind of missive, George Washington informed the Canadians that Benedict Arnold ...

LOPEZ: His letters are marvelous ... but they allowed him to say things that he couldn’t say as Benjamin Franklin. He would simply put the words into someone else’s mouth and he could disavow ...

In December 1776, nearly six months after the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from British rule, 70-year-old ...

FDR's personal collection of historical documents from America's founding fathers will be on display, including items signed by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.