Intriguingly, this is what’s known as the “Ben Franklin effect”: when, after doing someone a favor, you actually begin to ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

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 ...

The “Ben on the Bench” sculpture is set to be unveiled in Franklin on Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday as part of the ...

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A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France as a sort ...

This extended scene from BENJAMIN FRANKLIN includes bonus material not in the final film. An African slave in Boston, Onesimus, introduced Cotton Mather to the concept of inoculation, which meant ...

Wyoming’s newspapers are launching a new statewide recognition in 2026 to honor local governments that demonstrate an ...

Franklin originally wrote the quote in 1722. It was included in one of a series of letters that were published in his older brother James' newspaper, The New-England Courant. All of the letters were ...