To discuss Franklin’s life and legacy, we are joined by H.W. Brand, professor of history at Texas A&M, and author of The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin; Claudeanne Lopez ...

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 ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin ... of all of life as an experiment and an exploration and the way in which I can use that scene as an opportunity for Ben to articulate to his ...

examine Franklin's writings and his life with a new sophistication, placing Franklin in his cultural milieu while revealing the complexities of his intellectual, literary, social, and political views.

The great American polymath played ... novelty as opposed to something that had a life-changing effect for the average ...

Due to their frequent use in everyday American life, Benjamin Franklin bills are also among the most counterfeited in the country. The color-changing numbers and the bell in the inkwell can also ...

The Benjamin Franklin Parkway is one of the most recognizable ... One that came to be due to the dream of a more perfect life known as the City Beautiful movement. The movement came to be in ...