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 ...

In an interview with Sirius XM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the Wall Street star defended the scene in his Apple TV+ series Franklin in which his Benjamin ... write an essay titled “Fart Proudly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Freneau’s “On the Death of Dr. Benjamin Franklin” amounts to a verse essay establishing the greatness of its subject, in regular abab tetrameter quatrains that culminate in a six-line encomium. As a ...

According to co-host Julia Cunningham, the diplomat was a "very funny" person and even penned a collection of essays titled ... He's Playing 'Rascal' Benjamin Franklin Because 'I Wanted to See ...

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.” ...

Benjamin and Deborah Franklin spent all but two of their final ... empathetic—it’s hard to imagine he would have written an essay like “On the Death of Infants,” which was inspired by ...

As apprentice, Benjamin Franklin does the grunt work—“I was employed to carry the papers through the streets to the customers”—but he is ambitious, and he’s resentful of being held in ...