It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

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

"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 ...

Maybe it’s time to revive Franklin’s wisdom not just as a historical footnote, but as a model for modern living. America ...

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 ...

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 ...