Benjamin Franklin

The library proposed by Benjamin Franklin and those that followed were instrumental in improving the intellectual lives of many Americans.

Wet your finger and run it around the rim of a wine glass. You get a note! A ...

Benjamin Franklin was so busy as an inventor, publisher, scientist, diplomat, and U.S. Founding Father that it’s easy ...

Children of the Great Depression were friends with frugality. My dad, who grew up poor, but who became ...

For any trivia question that asks, “who was the first American to do X,” answering Ben Franklin is ...

The Enlightenment saw the emergence of the “philosophes” in Europe—intellectuals who were unafraid to publicly challenge ... well, ...

Upon seceding from Britain, her thirteen former colonies immediately began to lay the foundations of an independent humanities ...

Ah! It’s a lovely Friday evening. You’ve had a successful work week and now it’s time to have ...

The quintessential self-made man Benjamin Franklin had one of the most remarkable lives in recorded history. He went ...

The knowledge and wisdom of America's founding fathers still resonate today.