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

Franklin actually was Anglo-American because ... again and see if you can figure out the meaning of the word polymath. Benjamin Franklin was almost every description you could think of. He was ...

Benjamin Franklin seems an easy guy to like. And if anyone belongs on U.S. currency it's this colonial polymath who dished financial wisdom as fit for today as when he signed the Declaration of ...

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 ...

1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin knew better than most the benefits of self-education.

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 ...