The founding father came up with some of the most-enduring business advice in Colonial America.

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote to a friend in 1789 that the new American Constitution appeared to be permanent, but that in ...

In 1731, book lover Franklin created the Library Company of Philadelphia, where this week visitors can see a collection of his papers worth an estimated $3 million to $4.5 million ...

The Academy Award winner stars as founding father Benjamin Franklin in the new limited-series from Apple TV+ Julia Moore is a TV Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Franklin was curious about the world and he operated in it as a gentlemanly scientist. America’s Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was intellectually curious about the world and he operated in it as a ...

Origins: Benjamin Franklin is one of those figures who was so ubiquitous during the American Revolution and the early history of the U.S. that many people incorrectly assume he once served as a U.S.

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...

On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin reportedly flew a kite during a thunderstorm, with the goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar — a container that could ...

The Benjamin Franklin we meet in Apple TV+'s limited series Franklin may be in his golden years, but he still has a few tricks up his sleeve. Oscar winner Michael Douglas stars as the famed Founding ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Michael Meyer, whose latest book, Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet, follows a bequest Franklin left in his will to two cities. We know Benjamin Franklin as a founder, a ...

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 fly a ...