With his face decorating the $100 bill, it is difficult for Americans to forget the figure that was Benjamin Franklin and his contribution to the founding of the United States. The details of his ...

While the answers to this question are multifaceted, the wisdom of one of America’s founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, offer a roadmap for us today. Franklin was more than just a statesman ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... a charter to start America's first hospital, the Pennsylvania Hospital. Around 1748 Franklin began his electricity research ...

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he became the second President of the United States. It was in this role he convened the Committee of Five for drafting the ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin ... the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. Franklin's 84 years (1706-1790) spanned an epoch of momentous ...