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

How did Benjamin Franklin become successful? He was a founding father, an inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat at the same time. Thomas Jefferson helped Franklin draft the ...

Read did precisely that ... noticed an uncanny resemblance between Sarah Franklin’s 1-year-old son, Benjamin Franklin Bache, and the Franky of the portrait. In a June 1770 letter, an elated ...

Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity, but he discovered how to harness its power for common use. Franklin's kite ...

Like his father, William had his own son out of wedlock, William Temple Franklin. Unlike Benjamin, William did not raise Temple. Unaware of his paternity, Temple grew up with a foster family in ...

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

Ben Franklin’s famous experiment with the kite and key gave him a better understanding of the nature of electricity. But did that event lead to the lightning rod? When Benjamin Franklin died in ...

Letters: That picture of the Who’s Who of American super-wealth in the first row at President Trump’s inauguration haunts me. It’s the visual definition of oligarchy.

The members of the Chili Historical Society say the list of Remarkable Rochesterians doesn’t reflect the importance of agriculture.

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