In December 1776, nearly six months after the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from British rule, 70-year-old ...

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

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 ...

The Wall Street and Basic Instinct star has made a hard pivot into prestige historical drama by playing no less a nobleman than Benjamin Franklin ... Father journeying to France in 1776 to ...

Over 35 years of marriage, Benjamin Franklin had indirectly praised ... 7-year-old accompany him on his diplomatic mission to France. Franklin didn’t return Benny Bache to his parents for ...