The Hon. Carl Schurz was invited a short time ago by several well-known citizens to publicly give them an opportunity to hear his two new lectures on "Benjamin Franklin" and "Abraham Lincoln." ...

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 ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

Benjamin Franklin had an exceptionally close bond with his son—until the American Revolution pitted them against each other. Benjamin Franklin and his son William demonstrate the electrical ...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th-century experiment in which he attached a metal key to a kite during a thunderstorm to see if the lightning ...