Those first stamps made it easier than ever to communicate, but early on people weren't quite sure how to use them.
The adventures of Jacob and his children have served as a throughline in the genesis of America – from abolition to ...
This month, we spoke with Anastasia Soare, CEO of Anastasia Beverly Hills. Soare was born in Romania and came to the U.S. in ...
On January 14, 1784, the Second Continental Congress ratified the decisive Treaty of Paris—the binding accord that ended the Revolutionary War, secured ...
The city, founded 227 years ago, is finally getting a statue of founding father Benjamin Franklin. In celebration of his ...
This Saturday, Jan. 17, marks Benjamin Franklin’s birthday — his 320th, as a matter of fact! He was born in Boston in 1706 ...
Founding father Ben Franklin lived to 84, enjoying excellent mental and physical health. Ignore his approach to aging at your ...
Philadelphia celebrates the 320th birthday of its Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, on Saturday, January 17.
Electricity isn't just wires and outlets. Its history includes fake experiments, brutal PR wars, and vehicles that predate ...
The Philadelphia Art Commission on Wednesday is slated to vote on a plan that would affix the original statue at the top of ...
Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long-anticipated tribute from his adopted country.
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago. In recent days, I discovered Ken Burns’s two episodes on Benjamin Franklin that aired in April 2022 on PBS.