Only a handful signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; they include: Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson. They ...

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

Benjamin Franklin was the oldest person to sign the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old when he ...

benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to compose a declaration to frame Lee's resolution. Which, in good lawyerly form, would itemize the reasons why the independence of the 13 ...

Christopher Leaman Benjamin Franklin was, in his own words ... One of the founding fathers who drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence. The inventor of the Franklin wood-burning ...

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

Benjamin Franklin helps craft the Declaration of Independence, wins French support for the American Revolution, and works on the U.S. Constitution. Benjamin Franklin premieres on PBS stations ...

Maybe it’s time to revive Franklin’s wisdom not just as a historical footnote, but as a model for modern living. America ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... While Benjamin was working in the Continental Congress to produce the Declaration of Independence, William was arrested by rebel soldiers and held ...

Higher education is under siege from the Trump administration. Those opposing this siege and the administration’s attacks on ...