The “Ben on the Bench” sculpture is set to be unveiled in Franklin on Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday as part of the ...

In her book, He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada, which was published in September 2025, Drohan ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father, championed virtue over material wealth. His famous quote, 'What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue,' from Poor Richard's Almanack, urges a ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

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Christmas thought of the day by Benjamin Franklin reflects on faith, practice, and moral conduct. The quote reminds readers ...