Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding grandfather. He’s been called the first American, but not always as a compliment, but if he was the first American ...

In our early years Ben Franklin was the model American. Franklin epitomized “the American Dream,” that special something that made America unique. He was a self-made man, moving from rags to ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin ... as much as anyone to the foundation of the American Republic. But Franklin's life was full of contradictions, and his success ...