‘We must, indeed, all hang together,” declared Benjamin Franklin, “or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” His punning statement encapsulated a situation in which Britain’s 13 ...

Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin, 1777, terracotta, by Jean Baptiste Nini, Italian, 1717–1786. In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the wide dissemination ...

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his ...

Benjamin Franklin is shown in a circa-1785 portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis. (Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Courtesy PBS) ...

LOS ANGELES — A Norman Rockwell painting of Benjamin Franklin owned by Debbie Reynolds will be among the items offered at an auction of the actress’ possessions in October.

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...

Ken Burns' Benjamin Franklin documentary paints the portrait of a brilliant man of contradictions. Its shows how to teach 'divisive' concepts.

Benjamin and Deborah were devastated and commissioned a near life-size portrait to remember their son. Four decades later in France, Franklin told a companion about his son Franky’s death until ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his iconic 1987 "Wall Street" role, just had to glance at Franklin's ubiquitous portrait on the $100 bill to see there wasn't much ...