Staring out from the $100 bill, looking more like a wise old uncle than Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin seems an easy guy to like. And if anyone belongs on U.S. currency it's this colonial ...
A bust of Benjamin Franklin, crafted by Flemish artist John Michael Rysbrack and believed to be the earliest sculpture of the ...
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have written many famed expressions, some legitimately and others without evidence. There is no documented evidence that Franklin ever made this ...
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 ...
In an extraordinary life, Benjamin Franklin achieved many things – as an industrialist, inventor and philosopher. But he is perhaps best remembered as being one of the Founding Fathers of the United ...