A receipt from a book sale, discussions of tax negotiations and a mortgage register may not seem worthy of display in their ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...

“Franklin” director Tim Van Patten, who won Emmys for “Boardwalk Empire” and “The Pacific,” says that although he loves history and is a history buff “this was a slice of history I was not aware of.” ...

APALACHICOLA, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - It’s been 238 years since the U.S. Constitution was signed, and Florida marked the milestone with a new monument honoring one of the nation’s ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WSMV) - A statue of Benjamin Franklin will be unveiled at Williamson County Archives and Museum in Franklin in January, according to Lovely Franklin. The “Ben on the Bench” sculpture, ...

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 fly a ...

During his career, Benjamin Franklin printed nearly 2,500,000 money notes for the American Colonies using what the researchers have identified as highly original techniques. Benjamin Franklin may be ...

Joyce Chaplin's new book "The Franklin Stove" is out now. (Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin ...