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

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

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

Rep. Brandon Gill introduced a bill requiring all $100 bills to feature a picture of Donald Trump on the front face of the note.

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 ...

Looking for a one-of-a-kind Cape house? A church dating back nearly 200 years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts has been repurposed as a home, and it's now for sale. The 3,400-square-foot, three-bedroom home ...

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 ...

Of the "Founding Fathers," Benjamin Franklin alone signed the three ... the Treaty of Paris; and the United States Constitution. Franklin's long European sojourn ended with his return to America ...

Of the "Founding Fathers," Benjamin Franklin alone signed the three ... the Treaty of Paris; and the United States Constitution. Franklin's long European sojourn ended with his return to America ...

Ben Franklin — whose electric experiments are most frequently associated with flying a kite in a thunderstorm — built and tested one such high-voltage motor. It wasn’t very powerful ...