This plain suit would have created a stark contrast between Franklin and those in the elaborate dress typical of the opulent ...

In a letter to his friend Benjamin Rush he predicted that future generations would believe that "The essence of the [American Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and ...

Michael Douglas revealed why it was important for him to portray founding father Benjamin Franklin farting in Apple TV+'s new ...

“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Benjamin Franklin was present for many important moments throughout the American Revolution. Not only did he sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but he also signed the Treaty of Alliance ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial ... who had emigrated from Ecton, England, Franklin became an American printer of national significance: the editor and ...

In July 1757 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London ... to Franklin’s post-1775 correspondence. After the American Revolution erupted, Franklin spent nine years in France as the representative ...