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"Ben’s Birthday Bash" takes place Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Franklin Institute, celebrating the 320th birthday of Benjamin Franklin with a mix of hands-on science, live demonstrations and interactive ...

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 ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on Philadelphia’s ...

Benjamin Franklin struggles to get French support for the American Revolution in this new eight-episode period drama co-starring Noah Jupe and Eddie Marsan. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic ...

Franklin’s first published essays were printed under a pseudonym—Silence Dogood. Franklin, who had only two years of formal education, largely taught himself through reading and on the job. At age 12, ...

A new limited series starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin revisits the founding father’s years as the American ambassador to France Based on a True Story Vanessa Armstrong | History ...