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 ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin signed most of his letters “B. Franklin” or “Benj. Franklin.” But some of them, especially those written in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, ...

Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding grandfather. He’s been called the first American, but not always as a compliment, but if he was the first American ...

The Wall Street and Basic Instinct star has made a hard pivot into prestige historical drama by playing no less a nobleman ...

Getty Images The polymath and statesman Benjamin Franklin, depicted here conducting an experiment to prove lightning was electricity, befriended Lay and published his work As his biographer ...

A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its nascent stage that has the potential to be massive. A handful of ...

Siblings Benjamin Franklin Pepper Jr. and Holly White still remember when the portrait of their great-great-great-great-great ...

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The City of Philadelphia announced on Friday a list of road closures and parking restrictions ahead of a massive Get Out the Vote concert and rally for Kamala Harris on the Benjamin Franklin ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Harris campaign has announced which performers will be in attendance for a massive Get Out the Vote concert on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on Monday ...

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