This plain suit would have created a stark contrast between Franklin and those in the elaborate dress typical of the opulent ...

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 ...

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 ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache (in blue), the grandson he’d taken to France ...

The sixth-seeded Coconino beach volleyball team bested No. 11-seeded Benjamin Franklin at home for a 3-2 first-round victory decided in a tiebreaker at the ones on Tuesday.

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 ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and ...

Read up about the history of the coveted Wheel won at the Penn Relays during the College and High School Championship relays.

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most prominent figures of American history. There was little that Franklin couldn’t do. The polymath was born into a modest family in 1706 and despite only two years of ...