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 ...

Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...

Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer ... school that might have led to a college education and sent him to learn writing ...

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 ...

Asked if viewers may imagine a series about Ben Franklin to be not much more than a humdrum history lesson, Van Patten said the sharp writing, “flawless” production design, and Douglas’s ...

Franklin and Writing features Ken Burns ... Franklin and Revolution features Ken Burns; Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life;" and Erica Dunbar, Professor of History ...