This quirk of human nature, known as the Ben Franklin Effect, explains a lot about how relationships work, and how we might improve them. Benjamin Franklin stumbled across the phenomenon in 1736 ...

Surely not. By Stacy Schiff Lloyd Suh’s nimble period comedy about Benjamin Franklin examines a timeless struggle: the unmet expectations that divide parents and children. A new Apple TV+ series ...

Later, when an essay appeared in James’s newspaper over the name Silence Dogood, no one, including James, knew the real author was 16-year-old Benjamin. Franklin, who had only two years of ...

When the documentary “Benjamin Franklin” aired on PBS earlier this ... Of Blacks themselves, Franklin said in a 1751 essay, “Almost every slave by nature [was] a thief.” ...

In between his many accomplishments—inventing the lightning rod, founding the University of Pennsylvania, drafting the Declaration of Independence—Benjamin Franklin also devised innovative and ...

Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator ... The team determined that Franklin began adding muscovite to his papers and the size of this muscovite crystals in his paper increased over ...

Since 1954, Yale University has housed many of Franklin's papers. The digital archive, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, provides access to more than 37 volumes of writings and essays. A keyword ...