Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European ...

Let’s go around the room and first with you, Bill. What did you mean when you say in the title in your book that Benjamin Franklin was the first American? The First American? MR. BRAND ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

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Born two centuries apart, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) and Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966), each profoundly impacted ...

Benjamin Franklin did not invent electricity, but he discovered how to harness its power for common use. Franklin's kite experiment helped identify the electric nature of lightning and the ...

Franklin is a biographical drama miniseries focusing on the life of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lloyd Suh’s nimble period comedy about Benjamin Franklin examines a timeless struggle: the unmet expectations that divide parents and children.