The founding father came up with some of the most-enduring business advice in Colonial America.

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote to a friend in 1789 that the new American Constitution appeared to be permanent, but that in ...

As we approach the 250th birthday of the American experiment, we are confronted with the greatest threat to its survival ...

In 1731, book lover Franklin created the Library Company of Philadelphia, where this week visitors can see a collection of his papers worth an estimated $3 million to $4.5 million ...

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 fly a ...

The Abbey Theater of Dublin will perform "1776,'"a musical about the nation's fight for independence, as part of the America ...

In late 1772 Benjamin Franklin received a startling package from an unknown sender. It was a collection of letters from several high-ranking colonial officials in Massachusetts written to Thomas ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

Benjamin Franklin's entrepreneurial spirit fueled American innovation during his time and can still be felt today. In The Society for Useful Knowledge author Jonathan Lyons talk about how Franklin ...