It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

We speak with Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International ...

Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...

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 ...

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging ...

Ben Franklin, known by many young people as the face of the 100-dollar bill, was an American icon of his day and one of Charlie Munger’s role models. Undoubtedly, the remarkable polymath who ...

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Franklin Resources, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm provides its services to individuals, institutions, pension plans, trusts, and ...

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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 ...

Most of the electric motors we see these days are of the electromagnetic variety, and for good reason: they’re powerful. But there’s a type of motor that was invented before the ...

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin. In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to Congress, arguing it was in America's ...