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 ...

Benjamin Franklin is the only Founding Father to have signed all three of the key documents defining the American nation: the ...

“Science, rather than being a sideline, is the through line that integrates [Benjamin] Franklin’s diverse interests,” according to this electrifying portrait of the founding father’s scientific ...

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.

Introduction. Brief biography of Benjamin Franklin. By E. Wright.--A Puritan on prosperity, by W. Griswold.--Quaker business mentors: the Philadelphia merchants, by F ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you're looking for a summer read, Walter Isaacson's new biography of Benjamin Franklin may be just what you need. Isaacson and NPR's Steve Inskeep discuss Franklin as a newspaperman in America's ...

Avaricious American authors out to capitalize on the renown of the Founding Fathers have always known to take a reading of ...

“Magisterial,” is the word J.A. Leo Lemay’s publishers proffer for his seven-volume biography of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania Press). Certainly the first two volumes fully justify the ...