Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer ... school that might have led to a college education and sent him to learn writing ...

(Franklin denied it, writing he would “do nothing unworthy ... So what should we make of Benjamin Franklin? One popular image is that he was a free and easy libertine—our founding playboy.

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

writing in a recent filing that: “The Framers viewed the prosecution of the Chief Executive as a radical innovation to be treated with great caution. Benjamin Franklin stated at the ...

In July 1757 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London to represent ... What Franklin was doing at this early stage, her analysis shows, was writing primarily to James Parker, a printing partner in ...

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten," he said in "Poor Richard's Almanack," "either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." Benjamin Franklin ...

Franklin and Writing features Ken Burns ... Franklin and Revolution features Ken Burns; Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History ...

After success as a Philadelphia printer, Benjamin Franklin earns worldwide fame in science, before a turn to politics divides his family. Benjamin Franklin helps craft the Declaration of ...