Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He penned the inscription that would eventually appear at his Christ Church ...

The recent re-introduction of the Benjamin Franklin Statue Placement Act aims to place a statue of the celebrated Founding ...

a ten-foot-high statue—a gift to the city from the Pennsylvania Freemasons—shows young Benjamin Franklin at his printing press. By Adam Smyth - Author, The Book-Makers: A History of the Book ...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, came to symbolize for many what it meant to be an American during the Revolutionary War with his unadorned clothes and speech, quick wit, and ...

A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy "is in the factory being cast" and is expected to be "unveiled this year" after a fundraising campaign. The life-size bronze sculpture will be installed near ...

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 ...

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 ...