In central London, near where tourists and business travelers board Eurostar trains to Paris, lies the burial place of ...

American patriot and longtime man about London town Ben Franklin was named the leader of the colonial rebellion by the British press on this day in history, Nov. 14, 1776. "The very identical Dr.

The American postal system, under the leadership of Benjamin Franklin, was created on this date, July 26, 1775. The Second Continental Congress met in the immediate aftermath of the Battles of ...

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 ...

A new Ben Franklin statue unveiled on Independence Day in Liberty Square has quickly become a popular attraction.

Benjamin Franklin is long-gone, but as a world-famous inventor, some of his theories are still at work in the palm of your hand. He greatly added to the world’s understanding of electricity in his own ...

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 ...

As Carla Mulford wrote in her article “Figuring Benjamin Franklin in American Cultural Memory” from “The New England Quarterly”: “Franklin’s figure offers a representative case of the multiple ways ...

The newspaper clipping was authentic, published by anti-Communist and antisemitic newspaper Common Sense on Nov. 15, 1966. However, it was unknown how, or with what evidence, the newspaper connected ...