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

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

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... to me every enjoyment,” Jane wrote about Benjamin after his death in 1790, “Whatever other pleasures were, as they mostly took their rise from ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Bensalem’s Growden Mansion was once owned by wealthy Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin and son William were regular overnight guests in Colonial times. Two critical events occurred there 23 years ...